Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Lima arcuata G. B. Sowerby II, 1843, Lima galapagensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902, Lima pacifica d'Orbigny, 1846 (Horton et al., 2021). MHNG: 993-175, CDRS: 184, 1231, 1299, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

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

Distribution: South of California to Perú and Galapagos Islands (Hickman & Finet, 1999).

• 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.
• Pilsbry, H.A. Vanatta, E.G. (1902) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. XIII: Marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 549-560.