Alia carinata
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Alia carinata
| Alia carinata | |
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| A live individual of Alia carinata on a piece of red alga | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Subfamily: | Columbellinae |
| Genus: | Alia |
| Species: | A. carinata |
| Binomial name | |
| Alia carinata (Hinds, 1844) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Mitrella carinata |
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Alia carinata, common name the "carinate dove shell", is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Distribution
This species is found in the Eastern Pacific, from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
Description
This dove snail has a shell that is about 10 mm in length.[1] The body whorl is sometimes carinate (with a keel) and sometimes not. The shell color is variable; it can be one uniform color or patterned.
References
- ^ McLean, James H., 1978 Marine Shells of Southern California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 24, Revised Edition: p. 48
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