Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Natica sigillata
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Height: 10 to 19 mm; diameter: 10 to 19 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Naticoidea
Family
Naticidae
Genus
Natica
Species
sigillata
Taxon category: Accepted
AMNH: 154688 (Paratype), USNM: 679558 (Paratype), LACM: 1284 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 1285 (Paratype), CDRS: 858
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California, off Carmen island, to Galapagos Islands.
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- McLean, J.H. (1970) New species of Panamic marine Gastropods. The Veliger 12: 310-315.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Natica sigillata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9694. Accessed 31 October 2026.