Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Dosinia ponderosa
almejas, Ponderous dosinia
Size: 12 (-14,5) cm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), sublittoral, 0-80 m depth.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Veneroidea
Family
Veneridae
Genus
Dosinia
Species
ponderosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Arthemis ponderosa Gray, 1838; AMNH: 117932, LACM: 72-196, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Fischer, W. Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Vol. I. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Roma, 646 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, Dosinia ponderosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9224. Accessed 1 November 2026.