Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

ANSP: 324512 (Paratype), USNM: 707102 (Paratype), CAS: 21050 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), CDRS: 490, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984

Origin: Endemic

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

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

Distribution: Caribbean, Lower California, Eastern Pacific, Coast of Baja California and Galapagos Island in Pinta, Genovesa (Roth & V. Coan, 1971).

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• 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.
• Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
• Roth, B. (1978) New species and records of tropical west American Marginellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 292: 1-18.
• Roth, B. Coan, E.V. (1971) Marginellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) from the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 37(23): 575-584.