Galapagos Species Database
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Odostomia (Miralda) galapagensis
Uñas de mar, Sea snails
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Superfamily
Pyramidelloidea
Family
Pyramidellidae
Genus
Odostomia (Miralda)
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Miralda galapagensis; USNM: 206906 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), LACM: AHF 468, AHF 471, AHF 478, AHF 481 (= Miralda terebellum C.B. Adams, 1852)
Origin: Native
- Dall, W.H. Bartsch, P. (1909) A monograph of west American pyramidellid mollusks. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 68: 1-258, 30 pls.
- 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.
- NMNH (2021) National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Https://collections.nmnh.si.edu
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"Galapagos Species Database, Odostomia (Miralda) galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20453. Accessed 31 October 2026.