Columbella mercatoria

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

Columbella mercatoria
Five views of a shell of Columbella mercatoria (Linné, 1758)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Columbellidae
Subfamily:	Columbellinae
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)

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.6 mm.

References

• 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.

External links

• 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.