Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Caryocorbula nasuta
Almeja, Clams
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Myida
Superfamily
Myoidea
Family
Corbulidae
Genus
Caryocorbula
Species
nasuta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Corbula nasuta G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
- Coan, E.V. (2002) The Eastern Pacific recent species of the Corbulidae (Bivalvia). Malacologia 44(1): 47-105.
- Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 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, Caryocorbula nasuta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20338. Accessed 5 November 2026.