Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Transennella galapagana
transenela de Galápagos, Galapagos transennella
Length: 6 mm; height: 4mm; diameter: 3mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal and subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Veneroidea
Family
Veneridae
Genus
Transennella
Species
galapagana
Taxon category: Accepted
CAS: 6904 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 6905 to 6909 (Paratypes), 22519, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG: expedition to the Galapagos, 1993.
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Ecuador (Galapagos Islands).
- 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.
- 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.
- Hertlein, L.G. Strong, A.M. (1939) Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 23(24): 367-380.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- 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, Transennella galapagana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8624. Accessed 31 October 2026.