Galapagos Species Database
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Tralia vanderbilti
melampus de Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt melampus
Length: 10 mm; diameter:5.7 mm.
Supralittoral, middle and lower coast, among the mangrove roots lasa.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Ellobiida
Superfamily
Ellobioidea
Family
Ellobiidae
Genus
Tralia
Species
vanderbilti
Taxon category: Accepted
AMNH: 87173, ANSP: 170299 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), USNM: 122016a, CAS: 27221 (previously misidentified as “Melampus panamensis” C.B. Adams), CDRS: 380, 728, 853
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: 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.
- Schwengel, J. (1938) Zoological results of the G. Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937 - Part I. Galapagos Mollusca. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 90: 1-3.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tralia vanderbilti", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8754. Accessed 30 October 2026.