Galapagos Species Database

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Polinices hacketti Marincovich, 1975

caracol lunar de Hackett, Hackett moonsnail

Length: 63 mm

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), low littoral and sublittoral

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Naticoidea

Family
Naticidae

Genus
Polinices

Species
hacketti

Taxon category: Accepted

AMNH: 163367 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 117907 (Paratype), 157265 (Paratype), 111869, ANSP: 336154, USNM: 102471, 102472, LACM: 71-66, HH-127, AHF 57-33, AHF 193-34, 112590, 149631, 152063, 66-210.11 (fide Kaiser, 1997), CAS: 55394 (Paratype), 55395 (Paratype), 23201, CDRS: 373, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG: expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

Origin: Endemic

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Distribution: 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.
  • 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.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
  • Marincovich, L. (1975) New Tertiary and Recent Naticidae from Eastern Pacific. The Veliger 18(2): 168-173.

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