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

Columbella mercatoria
Five views of a shell of Columbella mercatoria (Linné, 1758)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Columbellidae
Genus: Columbella
Species:
C. mercatoria
Binomial name
Columbella mercatoria
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)

Description

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The length of the shell attains 14.6 mm.

Distribution

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References

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  • 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.
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