Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Notocochlis chemnitzii
Caracol lunar, Moonsnail
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Naticoidea
Family
Naticidae
Genus
Notocochlis
Species
chemnitzii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Natica chemnitzii L. Pfeiffer, 1840, Natica pritchardi Forbes, 1852, Natica undata Philippi, 1852 (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.
- 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, Notocochlis chemnitzii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20411. Accessed 7 June 2026.