Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Epitonium emydonesus
Caracol, Snail
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Epitonioidea
Family
Epitoniidae
Genus
Epitonium
Species
emydonesus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Asperiscala emydonesa (Dall, 1917); Holotype: USNM: 194995 South of Espanola Island, Albatross R/V, 678698, Paratypes CDRS: 1491
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Dall, W.H. (1917) Notes on the shells of the genus Epitonium and its allies of the Pacific coast of America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 53(2217): 471-488.
- 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, Epitonium emydonesus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20366. Accessed 5 November 2026.