Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Babelomurex hindsi
babelomurex del pacífico, Pacific babelomurex
Length: 25 mm exceptionally 35 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal and subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Muricoidea
Family
Muricidae
Genus
Babelomurex
Species
hindsi
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Latiaxis hindsi (Carpenter, 1857), Trophon hindsi Carpenter, 1857 (Horton et al., 2021).; LACM: 71-50, 71-51, 71-53, A. 7066, AHF 12, AHF 80-33, AHF 152-34, AHF 157-34, CDRS: 245, 420, 796, 803, CLHI: 97-38 (CDRS)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: South of Gulf of 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, Babelomurex hindsi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8109. Accessed 30 October 2026.