Galapagos Species Database
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Crossata californica
Molusco, Sea nails
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Tonnoidea
Family
Bursidae
Genus
Crossata
Species
californica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Bursa californica (Hinds, 1843), Bursa californica sonorana Berry, 1960, Ranella californica Hinds, 1843 (Horton et al., 2021) Cossata californica sonorana (Skoglund, 1992)
Origin: Native
- 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.
- Skoglund, C. (1992) Additions to the Panamic Province Gastropod (Mollusca) literature: 1971 to 1992. The Festivus 24, Supplement: viii + 169 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Crossata californica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20418. Accessed 5 November 2026.