Galapagos Species Database
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Carinaria lamarckii
Carinaria, heteropodo
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Pterotracheoidea
Family
Carinariidae
Genus
Carinaria
Species
lamarckii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Carinaria atlantica A. Adams & Reeve, 1850, Carinaria australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833, Carinaria cymbium Woodward, 1890, Carinaria grimaldii Vayssière, 1904, Carinaria lamarcki Péron & Lesueur, 1810, Carinaria mediterranea Blainville, 1825, Carinaria mediterranea var. oceanica Vayssière, 1904, Carinaria punctata d'Orbigny, 1836, Pterotrachea lophyra Delle Chiaje, 1828, Pterotrachea navigera Delle Chiaje, 1828, Tubiola vatovai F. Nordsieck, 1973 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Mediterranean Sea, New Zealand, Cape Verde, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean (Horton et al., 2021).
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Carinaria lamarckii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8789. Accessed 5 November 2026.