Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Ventricolaria isocardia, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984; K.L. Kaiser collection (see Shasky, 1989 & Kaiser, 1997) Note: The genus Ventricolaria is unaccepted, the genus accepted is to Globivenus (Hickman, 1998; Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

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

Distribution: (V. isocardia) Gulf of California to Gordona island, Colombia (Keen, 1958) and Ecuador included Galapagos Islands (Hickman, 1998).

• 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.
• 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.
• Shasky, D.R. (1989) An update on the molluscs from the Galapagos Islands as listed in the preliminary faunal list of the marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands by Yves Finet. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 21: 8-10.