Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bostrycapulus aculeatus
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Calyptraeoidea
Family
Calyptraeidae
Genus
Bostrycapulus
Species
aculeatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Calyptraea echinus Broderip, 1834, Calyptraea foliacea Broderip, 1834, Calyptraea hystrix Broderip, 1834, Crepidula aculeata (Gmelin, 1791), Crepidula californica Tryon, 1886, Crepidula foliacea (Broderip, 1834), Crepidula tomentosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1832, Patella aculeata Gmelin, 1791 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bostrycapulus aculeatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20365. Accessed 3 November 2026.