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Epitonium eutaenium Dall, 1917

Caracol, Snail

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda

Superfamily
Epitonioidea

Family
Epitoniidae

Genus
Epitonium

Species
eutaenium

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: AHF 187-34

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Gulf of California and Galapagos Islands (Keen, 1971) Galapagos Islands (Finet, 1994).

References

  • Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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, Epitonium eutaenium", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20367. Accessed 31 October 2026.