Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Heliacus infundibuliformis perrieri
solario espira baja
Length: 14 mm
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Superfamily
Architectonicoidea
Family
Architectonicidae
Genus
Heliacus
Species
infundibuliformis
Subspecies
perrieri
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Heliacus (Teretropoma) infundibuliformis perrieri (Rochebrune, 1881), Heliacus canariensis F. Nordsieck, 1982, Heliacus perrieri (Rochebrune, 1881) (Horton et al., 2021); H. perrieri, C. Angermeyer collection (C.P. Hickman, pers. comm., 2000)
Origin: Native
Distribution: México to Panamá and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands, also Caribe and Eastern Atlantic.
- 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, Heliacus infundibuliformis perrieri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8717. Accessed 31 October 2026.