Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Glycymeris lintea
almendra, Mottled
Length, 58 mm; height,48mm; diameter, 33 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Arcida
Superfamily
Arcoidea
Family
Glycymerididae
Genus
Glycymeris
Species
lintea
Taxon category: Accepted
LACM: 127222 (fide Kaiser, 1997), CDRS: 230
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Panama to northern Peru.
- 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.
- Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
- 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, Glycymeris lintea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9519. Accessed 31 October 2026.