Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pyrgospira aenone
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Pseudomelatomidae
Genus
Pyrgospira
Species
aenone
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Clathrodrillia aenone Dall, 1919, Clathrodrillia nautica Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932, Crassispira tomliniana Melvill, 1927, Pleurotoma obeliscus Reeve, 1845, Pyrgospira obeliscus (Reeve, 1845) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pyrgospira aenone", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20115. Accessed 6 June 2026.