Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cerithium maculosum Kiener, 1841 (type locality: Galapagos), C. nebulosum Sowerby, 1855 (type locality: Galapagos); AMNH: 15915, 15917, 23130, ANSP: 17738, 17745, 81752, USNM: 707585, ?707595 (both misidentified as Cerithium gallapaginis Sowerby), LACM: several lots of Cerithium maculosum (ex.: 66-206, 71-63, 71-65, AHF 178-34), BMNH. Acc. no. 2271: 2 specimens (Charles Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), MHNG: 11455, 11456, 964-146, Cerithium maculosum: 11457, CDRS: 345, 546, 851, FNRS- Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG: expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

Origin: Endemic

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

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

Distribution: Gulf of California to north of Perú and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

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• 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.
• Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
• Kiener, L.C. (1834-70) Species général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes … (continué par … P. Fischer), vols. 1-11, livr. 1-165. Paris.
• Sowerby, G.B., Jr. (II) ([1842] 1847-87) Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells [ed. by G.B. Sowerby, Jr., completed by G.B. Sowerby (III)], vols. 1-5. London.
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