Galapagos Species Database

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

Coralliophila nux (Reeve, 1846)

Length: 20 mm;diameter: 13 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Muricoidea

Family
Muricidae

Genus
Coralliophila

Species
nux

Taxon category: Accepted

AMNH: 111835 (misidentified as C. parva (E.A.Smith)), 181090, ANSP: 170331, LACM: 66-212 (part.), A.7066, AHF 76-33 (misidentified as C. parva (E.A.Smith)), CDRS: 172, 417, 583, 1178

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

Distribution: Baja California south to Ecuador and Galapagos islands.

References

  • 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.
  • 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, Coralliophila nux", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9158. Accessed 30 October 2026.