Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Morum xanthostoma A. Adams, 1854 (type locality: Galapagos); AMNH: 87146, 91569, 110435, 110478, 110711, 117908, 165338, 165555, 166865, ANSP: 37041, 81802, 153191, 153534, 153620, 170362, 324333, LACM: several specimens, BMNH1966721 & 1966722 (Lectotype and Paralectotypes of Morum xanthostoma A. Adams), Acc. n° 2271 : 2 specimens (Charles Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), MHNG: 10318, 964-136, 983-521, 983-522, CDRS: 189, 401, 1142, 1294, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

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

Distribution: Baja California to Perú and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

• Adams, A. (1854) Descriptions of new species of shells, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1853): 173-176.
• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
• 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.
• Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.