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| Amphissa columbiana | |
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| Shell of Amphissa columbiana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Amphissa |
| Species: | A. columbiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphissa columbiana Dall, 1916
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| Synonyms | |
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Amphissa columbiana, known as the wrinkled dove snail, wrinkled amphissa, or Columbian amphissa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 20 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This species is native to the western coast of North America, from California to Alaska.
References
[edit]- ^ Amphissa columbiana (Castellanos, 1979). 20 May 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Cooper, W. (1860). Report upon the Mollusca collected on the survey. United States War Department, Pacific Railroad Surveys, 12(book 2, part 1): 369-386
External links
[edit]- Dall, W.H. (1916). "Notes on West American Columbellidae". The Nautilus. 30 (3): 27. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- Dall, W.H. (1921). "Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America, from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 112: 214. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- de Maintenon, M.J. (2019). "The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae)". Zoosymposia. 13: 165. doi:10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.19. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
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