Galapagos Species Database
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Colubraria lucasensis
tritón enano claro, Light dwarf triton
Length: 27 mm; diameter: 10.5 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), low intertidal and subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Buccinoidea
Family
Colubrariidae
Genus
Colubraria
Species
lucasensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: ? Triton reticulatus Sowerby, 1833 (non Blainville, 1829), “C. soverbii” auct., non Reeve, 1844 ?; ANSP: 153400, 153446, USNM: 117970, LACM: 72-196, AHF 62-33, AHF 154-34, AHF 157-34, AHF 167-34, CAS: 619, BMNH: acc. n° 2271: 1 specimen (Charles Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), CDRS: 408, 409, 578, 1079
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Baja California to Ecuador including Galapagos Islands
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Colubraria lucasensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8082. Accessed 2 November 2026.