🦋 Family

Columbellidae

17 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Columbellidae

Pictocolumbella ocellata (Link, 1807)

Pictocolumbella ocellata (the lightning dove shell) is a small sea snail species found in warm Indian and Western Pacific waters.

Parvanachis obesa (C.B.Adams, 1845)

Parvanachis obesa, the fat dovesnail, is a marine gastropod mollusc in the dove snail family Columbellidae found in the western Atlantic.

Amphissa columbiana Dall, 1916

Amphissa columbiana Dall, 1916 is a species native to North America's western coast with a shell up to 20 mm long.

Amphissa versicolor Dall, 1871

Amphissa versicolor Dall, 1871 is a small seashell species native to the Eastern Pacific coast from British Columbia to Baja California Sur.

Alia carinata (Hinds, 1844)

Alia carinata is a small Eastern Pacific dove snail that can detect and respond to sea star predators via waterborne chemical cues.

Astyris lunata (Say, 1826)

Astyris lunata is a species of marine dove snail found off parts of North America and French Guiana.

Columbella fuscata G.B.Sowerby I, 1832

Columbella fuscata is a species with shells 11–22 mm, distributed from Baja California to Peru and the Galápagos.

Columbella strombiformis Lamarck, 1822

Columbella strombiformis is a species with shells 20–30 mm, found from Northern Sea of Cortèz to Peru.

Columbella adansoni Menke, 1853

Columbella adansoni Menke, 1853 is a species of marine dove snail in the gastropod family Columbellidae.

Columbella rustica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Columbella rustica is a species of marine gastropod sea snail in the dove snail family Columbellidae.

Costoanachis translirata (Ravenel, 1861)

Costoanachis translirata is a species of dove sea snail found in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

Mitrella ocellata (Gmelin, 1791)

Mitrella ocellata is a small marine gastropod with a patterned shell found across multiple regions of the Atlantic Ocean.

Pardalinops testudinaria (Link, 1807)

Pardalinops testudinaria is a species with shells 10–41 mm wide, found across the Red Sea, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, and Australia.

Euplica varians (G.B.Sowerby I, 1832)

Euplica varians is a small marine species found across Indo-West Pacific shallow intertidal waters, growing up to 11 mm long.

Euplica scripta (Lamarck, 1822)

Euplica scripta is a species with a varied-sized marked shell, distributed across the entire Indo-Pacific and off Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Australia.

Pyrene flava (Bruguière, 1789)

Pyrene flava is a species with 12–25 mm shells, distributed across the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Indo-West Pacific.

Pseudamycla dermestoidea (Lamarck, 1822)

Pseudamycla dermestoidea is an endemic Australian marine snail with a small shell ranging 5 to 10 mm in length.

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