Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Megapitaria aurantiaca
almeja anaranjada, Orange venus
Length: 112 mm (over 4 inches); height: 85 mm; diameter: 59 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal, 0-10 m depth.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Veneroidea
Family
Veneridae
Genus
Megapitaria
Species
aurantiaca
Taxon category: Accepted
CAS: 38889, CDRS: 666, 1536, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Baja California to Perú and Salinas, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
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- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Megapitaria aurantiaca", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8626. Accessed 21 May 2025.