Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cerithium stercusmuscarum
pada salpicada del Pacífico, Pacific fly-specked cerith
Length: 30 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth),on sand flats in estuaries and in large quantities in the sludge from the base of red mangrove.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Cerithioidea
Family
Cerithiidae
Genus
Cerithium
Species
stercusmuscarum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: "Cerithium ocellatum Bruguière" auct., non Bruguère, 1792; AMNH: 15892, LACM AHF 76-33, AHF 806-38, CDRS: 225, 226, 349, 863, FNRS-Belgian 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 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.
- 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, Cerithium stercusmuscarum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8657. Accessed 30 October 2026.