Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Epitonium (Nitidiscala) hancocki DuShane, 1970a (Keen, 1971) LACM: 1235 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 1238 (Paratype), AHF 448, AHF 482, AHF 488

Origin: Native

• DuShane, H. (1970) Two new Epitoniidae from the Galapagos Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 12(3): 330-332.
• 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.
• 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. (1971) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru- Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 2nd edition, 1064 pp.