Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Rissoina stricta
risoido común, Common rissoina
Length: 9 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), Littoral.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Rissooidea
Family
Rissoinidae
Genus
Rissoina
Species
stricta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Rissoina dina Bartsch, 1915, R. fortis (C.B. Adams, 1852), R. gisna Bartsch, 1915, R. io Bartsch, 1915; AMNH: 90609 (as Rissoina dina Bartsch), USNM: 46161 (Holotype and Paratype of Rissoina io Bartsch), 56348 (as Rissoina io Bartsch); 56350 (Holotype and Paratypes of Rissoina dina Bartsch); LACM: 22-33, 66-119, 66-123, 66-125, 66-212, 71-44, 71-45, 71-46, 71-65, 71-73, 72-196, AHF 27-33, AHF 73-33, AHF 76-33, AHF 80-33, AHF 101-33, AHF 148-34, AHF 154-34, AHF 314-35, AHF 804-38, CAS: 27541 (as Rissoina fortis (C.B. Adams) and Rissoina gisna Bartsch), MHNG:993-135, CDRS: 336, 337, 338, 1192, 1193, 1503, 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: Gulf of California to Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- 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.
- 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.
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Rissoina stricta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8656. Accessed 21 August 2026.