Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Condylocardia hippopus (Mörch, 1861)

Bivalvo, Bivalva

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Carditida

Superfamily
Carditoidea

Family
Condylocardiidae

Genus
Condylocardia

Species
hippopus

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: 34-264 (fide Kaiser, 1997), 34-285.7 (fide Coan, 2003: 50), ? 66-125, CDRS: 1233, 1279; Syn.: Condylocardia panamensis Olsson, 1942, Hippella hippopus Mörch, 1861, fide Appeltans et al. (2010)

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama and Galapagos Islands (Coan, 2003).

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Coan, E.V. (2003) The tropical eastern Pacific species of the Condylocardiidae (Bivalvia). The Nautilus 117(2): 47-61.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Condylocardia hippopus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9145. Accessed 7 June 2026.