Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cheilea corrugata
concha del casco, Hoofshell
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Vanikoroidea
Family
Hipponicidae
Genus
Cheilea
Species
corrugata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Calyptraea varia Broderip, 1834 (type locality: Galapagos); AMNH: 15173, USNM: 102511, BMNH: ?1966626 (Syntypes 5 to 8 of Calyptraea varia Broderip: 4 specimens), CDRS: 359a, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Broderip, W.J. (1834) Descriptions of Several New Species of Calyptraeidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 35-40.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- 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.
- 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, Cheilea corrugata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9114. Accessed 31 October 2026.