Columbella mercatoria

Species of gastropod

Columbella mercatoria
Five views of a shell of Columbella mercatoria (Linné, 1758)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Columbellidae
Genus: Columbella
Species:
C. mercatoria
Binomial name
Columbella mercatoria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Columbella affinis Risso, 1826
  • Columbella mercatoria elongata Usticke, 1959
  • Columbella mercatoria mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Columbella mercatoria var. scalaris Kobelt, 1897
  • Columbella peleei Kiener, 1841
  • Columbella rudis G. B. Sowerby I, 1844
  • Columbella somersiana Dall & Bartsch, 1911
  • Columbella variabilis Schumacher, 1817
  • Voluta mercatoria Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)

Columbella mercatoria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.6 mm.

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Columbella mercatoria (Linné, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  • Risso, A., 1826 Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes. Mollusques, vol. 4, p. 1-439, 12 pls
  • Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition, vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae]
  • Sowerby, G. B., I. (1844). Monograph of the genus Columbella. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 1 (4): 109-146bis, pls 36-40. London, privately published
  • Dall W.H. & Bartsch P. (1911). New species of shells from Bermuda. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 40: 277-288, pl. 35
  • Russini V., Fassio G., Modica M. V., deMaintenon M. J. & Oliverio M. (2017). An assessment of the genus Columbella Lamarck, 1799 (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) from eastern Atlantic. Zoosystema. 39(2): 197-212
  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
Taxon identifiers
Columbella mercatoria
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