Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791)

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • 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.