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Tegula cooksoni (E. A. Smith, 1877)

tegula de cookson, Cookson tegula

Height: 9 mm; diameter: 10 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), Littoral. Color gray or brown.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Trochida

Superfamily
Trochoidea

Family
Tegulidae

Genus
Tegula

Species
cooksoni

Taxon category: Accepted

AMNH:110420, 165253, 165533, 180804, ANSP: 81760, 170372, SNM: several lots, LACM: 10090, 147244, 33-69.3, 34-76.4, 34-234.4, 38-68.1, 66-123.6, 66-125.11, 66-212.2, 71-44.5, 71-52.4, 71-65.11, 71-70.2, BMNH: 1876-6-28.11 (Holotype), Acc. n° 2271 : 1 specimen (C. Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), MHNG: 11349, 11350, CDRS: 311, 312, 1220. FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993.

Origin: Native

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Cocos Islands and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

References

  • 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.
  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 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.
  • Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
  • Montoya, M. (1983) Los molluscos marinos de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. I. Lista anotada de especies. Brenesia 21: 325-353.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Tegula cooksoni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8069. Accessed 31 October 2026.