Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Trigonulina ornata
Shell
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Superfamily
Verticordioidea
Family
Verticordiidae
Genus
Trigonulina
Species
ornata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Verticordia (Trigonulina) ornata (d'Orbigny, 1853), Verticordia caelata Verrill, 1882, Verticordia ornata (d'Orbigny, 1853) (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.
- Jung, P. (1996) Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 17. The Families Cuspidariidae and Verticordiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110 (351):35-74.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Trigonulina ornata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20124. Accessed 1 November 2026.