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Tegula snodgrassi (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902)

tegula lengua verde, Green tongued tegula

Height: 15 mm; diameter: 14 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), littoral.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Trochida

Superfamily
Trochoidea

Family
Tegulidae

Genus
Tegula

Species
snodgrassi

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Tegula barkeri Bartsch & Rehder, 1939; AMNH: 110421, 163569, 163581, 163923, 165253a, 165301, 165362, 165445, 165518, 165525, 165574, 165595, 165603, 180801, ANSP: 82789 (Holotype), 316706 (Paratypes), 81953, 153456, USNM: 472589 (Holotype of T. barkeri ), 472856 (T. barkeri ), plus several other lots. LACM: 147243, 33-33.6, 33-78.6, 34-27.5, 34-51.8, 34-73.7, 34-189.3, 34-217.7, 38-58.15, 66-119.5, 66-122.5, 66-123.5, 66-125.10, 66-206.5, 66-209.4, 71-44.4, 71-45.7, 71-46.5, 71-49.4, 71-51.3, 71-53.5, 71-69.7, 71-72.6,71-73.9, 71-75.1, 72-196.5, BMNH: Acc. n° 2271 : 2 lots (Charles Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), MHNG 982/1415, 11351, 11352, 11353

Origin: Endemic

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

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

Distribution: Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

References

  • 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.
  • 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.

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