Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Coralliophila violacea
caracol del coral violeta, Slugs
Length: usually less than 35 mm, exceptionally 60 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Muricoidea
Family
Muricidae
Genus
Coralliophila
Species
violacea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Coralliophila (Coralliophila) violacea (Kiener, 1836), Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin, 1791), Fusus neritoideus (Gmelin, 1791), Murex neritoideus Chemnitz, 1788, Murex neritoideus Gmelin, 1791, Purpura violacea Kiener, 1836, Pyrula neritoidea (Gmelin, 1791) (Horton et al., 2021); LACM: AHF 804-38, CAS: 38862, 40978, CDRS: 163, 164, 419
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Widely distributed.
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Coralliophila violacea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8371. Accessed 31 October 2026.