Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cheilea cepacea
concha del casco falso, False cup-and-saucer
Length: 35 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), low intertidal and sublittoral.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Vanikoroidea
Family
Hipponicidae
Genus
Cheilea
Species
cepacea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Patella equetris Linnaeus, 1758 (auct.), Calyptraea alveolata Reeve, 1858 (type locality: Galapagos), Calyptraea tortilis Reeve, 1858 (type locality: Galapagos); AMNH: 87166, ANSP: 170332, USNM: 96043, 102462, 122116, 472574, LACM: several lots (ex.: 71-46, 71-65, AHF 400, AHF 804-38), BMNH: 1977111 & 1977112 (Syntypes of Calytraea alveolata Reeve), 1977106 (Holotype of Calyptraea tortilis Reeve), CDRS: 359, 761, 1158, 1281, 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) and Chile.
- 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.
- Reeve, L. (1843-78) Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 1-20. London.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cheilea cepacea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8660. Accessed 30 October 2026.