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Family: Columbellidae dove shells



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Mitrella minor
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Indo-Pacific.
Max. Length 0.6 cm BL
Mitrella moleculina (Duclos, 1840)

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Mitrella moleculina
[]
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Max. Length 4.5 cm DL
 
Mitrella multilineata
[]
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Max. Length 14.5 cm DL
 
Mitrella nitens
[]
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Mitrella nitidulina
[]
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Mitrella nycteis
[Fenestrate dove-shell]
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Mitrella nympha
[]
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Max. Length 1.3 cm DL
 
Mitrella ocellata
[White-spot dovesnail]
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Mitrella pallaryi
[]
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Mitrella penai
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.5 cm DL
 
Mitrella perlucida
[]
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Mitrella permodesta
[]
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Mitrella philia
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 8 cm DL
 
Mitrella profundi
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Mitrella projecta
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.4 cm DL
 
Mitrella proscripta
[]
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Mitrella psilla
[]
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Mitrella pudica
[]
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Mitrella puella
[]
No picture found
 
Mitrella pulla
[]
No picture found
 
Mitrella punctilineata
[]
No picture found
 
Mitrella pura
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 9.5 cm DL
 
Mitrella raveneli
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.5 cm BL
 
Mitrella rorida
[]
No picture found
 
Mitrella russeli
[]
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Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Mitrella sagenata
[]
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Mitrella salvadorae
[]
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Mitrella samueli
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.8 cm DL
 
Mitrella sanctaehelenae
[]
No picture found
 
Mitrella scripta
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Mitrella stemma
[]
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Mitrella tenuis
[Inflated dove shell]
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Max. Length 2.6 cm DL
 
Mitrella tosatoi
[]
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Mitrella tuberosa
[]
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Mitrella undulata
[]
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Mitrella ventriosa
[]
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Max. Length 1.0 cm DL
 
Mitrella verrillii
[]
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Max. Length 0.4 cm DL
 
Mitrella vidua
[]
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Mitrella virginiae
[]
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Mitrella vitrea
[]
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Mitrella yabei
[]
No picture found
 
Mokumea albomarginata
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.4 cm DL
 
Mokumea albovittata
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Mokumea divaricata
[]
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Mokumea fuscolineata
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.3 cm DL
 
Mokumea mokum
[]
No picture found
 
Mokumea yukitai
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Western Atlantic.
Max. Length 0.9 cm DL
Nassarina bushiae (Dall, 1889)

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Nassarina bushiae
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Nassarina glypta
[Engraved dovesnail]
No picture found
 
Nassarina grayi
[]
No picture found
 
Nassarina maculata
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.8 cm DL
 
Nassarina metabrunnea
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Western Central Atlantic

Nassarina minor (Adams, 1845)

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Nassarina minor
[Banded dove-shell]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Western Central Atlantic

Nassarina monilifera (Sowerby, 1844)

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Nassarina monilifera
[Many-spotted dove-shell]
No picture found
 
Nassarina penicillata
[Penciled dovesnail]
No picture found
 
Nassarina prouzetae
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.9 cm DL
 
Nassarina thetys
[]
No picture found
 
Nitidella carinata
[]
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Nitidella laevigata
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1.6 cm DL
 
Nitidella nitida
[Glossy dovesnail]
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Nodochila pascua
[]
No picture found
 
Parvanachis bocapanensis
[]
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Parvanachis forcellii
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Parvanachis isabellei
[]
No picture found
 
Parvanachis masirana
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Southeast Pacific

Parvanachis nigricans (Sowerby, 1844)

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Parvanachis nigricans
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Parvanachis obesa
[Fat dovesnail]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.4 cm DL
 
Parvanachis ostreicola
[Oyster dovesnail]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.5 cm DL
 
Parvanachis paessleri
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm DL
 
Parvanachis radwini
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1.5 cm BL
 
Pictocolumbella ocellata
[Lightning dove-shell]
No picture found
 
Pleurotomitrella pleurotomoides
[]
No picture found
 
Pseudamycla dermestoidea
[]
No picture found
 
Pyrene deshayesii
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Indo-Pacific.
Max. Length 2.7 cm BL
Pyrene flava (Bruguière, 1789)

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Pyrene flava
[Yellow dove shell]
No picture found

Max. Length 1.7 cm BL
 
Pyrene obtusa
[]

Photo by Poppe, Guido and Philippe

Indo-Pacific
Max. Length 2.2 cm BL
Pyrene punctata (Bruguiere, 1792)

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Pyrene punctata
[Punctate dove shell]

Photo by FAO

Indo-Pacific
Max. Length 2 cm SHL
Pyrene scripta (Lamarck, 1822)

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Pyrene scripta
[Dotted dove shell]
No picture found
 
Pyrene splendidula
[]
No picture found
 
Pyrene testudinaria
[Tortoise dove-shell]
No picture found
 
Pyrene turturina
[Turtle dove-shell]
No picture found
 
Pyrene varians
[]
No picture found
 
Pyreneola abyssicola
[]
No picture found
 
Pyreneola melvilli
[]
No picture found
 
Pyreneola semipicta
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 2 cm DL
 
Rhombinella laevigata
[Smooth dovesnail]
No picture found
 
Salitra radwini
[]
No picture found
 
Seminella comistea
[]
No picture found
 
Seminella makemoensis
[]
No picture found
 
Seminella peasei
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1.5 cm DL
 
Seminella varia
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Indo-Pacific.
Max. Length 0.4 cm BL
Seminella virginea (Gould, 1860)

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Seminella virginea
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.5 cm DL
 
Steironepion maculatum
[]
No picture found
 
Steironepion minor
[Banded dovesnail]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.5 cm DL
 
Steironepion moniliferum
[Many-spotted dovesnail]
No picture found

Max. Length 2.2 cm DL
 
Strombina francesae
[]
No picture found
 
Strombina fusinoidea
[Slender strombina]
No picture found

Max. Length 2.6 cm DL
 
Strombina pumilio
[]
No picture found
 
Sulcomitrella kanamaruana
[]
No picture found
 
Sulcomitrella monodonta
[]
No picture found
 
Sundamitrella impolita
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1 cm DL
 
Suturoglypta iontha
[Lineate dovesnail]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.9 cm DL
 
Suturoglypta pretrii
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1.6 cm DL
 
Suturoglypta procera
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra australensis
[]
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Zafra brevissima
[]
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Zafra comistea
[]
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Zafra debilis
[]
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Zafra exilis
[]
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Zafra fulvastra
[]
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Zafra fuscolineata
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra hahajimana
[]
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Zafra hervieri
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra kermadecensis
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra minuta
[]
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Zafra mitriformis
[]
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Zafra obesula
[]
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Zafra ocellatula
[]
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Zafra ornata
[]
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Zafra phaula
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra pumila
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra rapanuiensis
[]
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Zafra regulus
[]
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Zafra savignyi
[]
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Zafra selasphora
[]
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Zafra semiclatriata
[]
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Zafra succinea
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra troglodytes
[]
No picture found
 
Zafra vercoi
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.9 cm DL
 
Zafrona belkisae
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.9 cm DL
 
Zafrona diversa
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Western Atlantic
Max. Length 0.9 cm DL
Zafrona idalina (Duclos, 1840)

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Zafrona idalina
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.6 cm BL
 
Zafrona isomella
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.8 cm DL
 
Zafrona lindae
[]

Photo by Coltro, Marcus

Western Central Atlantic.
Max. Length 1.2 cm DL
Zafrona pulchella (de Blainville, 1829)

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Zafrona pulchella
[Beautiful dovesnail]
No picture found

Max. Length 0.9 cm BL
 
Zafrona striatula
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1 cm DL
 
Zafrona sunderlandi
[]
No picture found

Max. Length 1.1 cm DL
 
Zafrona taylorae
[]
No picture found
 
Zemitrella cera
[]
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Zemitrella siligo
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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Mitrella minor Mediterranean Sea. 1836
Mitrella moleculina Indo-Pacific. 0.6 BL 1840
Mitrella multilineata Indo-Pacific. 4.5 DL 1889
Mitrella nitens Indo-Pacific. 14.5 DL
Mitrella nitidulina Atlantic Ocean. 1897
Mitrella nycteis Fenestrate dove-shell Western Central Atlantic 1846
Mitrella nympha Indo-Pacific. 1841
Mitrella ocellata White-spot dovesnail Eastern Pacific and Atlan 1.3 DL 1791
Mitrella pallaryi Mediterranean Sea. 1927
Mitrella penai Mediterranean Sea. 2021
Mitrella perlucida Western Atlantic. 0.5 DL 1927
Mitrella permodesta Western Atlantic. 1890
Mitrella philia Eastern Central Pacific 1846
Mitrella profundi Eastern Central Pacific 8 DL 1889
Mitrella projecta Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1927
Mitrella proscripta Eastern Atlantic. 0.4 DL 1890
Mitrella psilla Introduced to the Mediter 1846
Mitrella pudica Western Central Pacific 1877
Mitrella puella Western Pacific 1844
Mitrella pulla Eastern Indian Ocean 1852
Mitrella punctilineata Eastern Indian Ocean 2020
Mitrella pura Eastern Indian Ocean 1882
Mitrella raveneli Eastern Indian Ocean 9.5 DL 1889
Mitrella rorida Indo-Pacific. 0.5 BL 1859
Mitrella russeli Eastern Central Pacific 1874
Mitrella sagenata Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1924
Mitrella salvadorae Western Atlantic. 2021
Mitrella samueli Western Atlantic. 2020
Mitrella sanctaehelenae Eastern Atlantic. 0.8 DL 1890
Mitrella scripta Northwest Pacific and Med 1758
Mitrella stemma Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1927
Mitrella tenuis Inflated dove shell Indo-Pacific. 1852
Mitrella tosatoi Western Atlantic. 2.6 DL 2006
Mitrella tuberosa Canada 1864
Mitrella undulata Western Central Pacific 1911
Mitrella ventriosa Western Central Pacific 2020
Mitrella verrillii Western Atlantic. 1.0 DL 1881
Mitrella vidua Western Atlantic. 0.4 DL 1924
Mitrella virginiae Western Atlantic. 2020
Mitrella vitrea Western Atlantic. 2020
Mitrella yabei Indo-Pacific. 1934
Mokumea albomarginata Indo-Pacific. 1979
Mokumea albovittata Western Atlantic. 0.4 DL 1965
Mokumea divaricata Indo-Pacific. 1900
Mokumea fuscolineata Eastern Indian Ocean 1930
Mokumea mokum Western Atlantic. 0.3 DL 2004
Mokumea yukitai Indo-Pacific. 1991
Nassarina bushiae Western Atlantic. 0.9 DL 1889
Nassarina glypta Engraved dovesnail Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1885
Nassarina grayi Western Atlantic. 1889
Nassarina maculata Western Atlantic. 1850
Nassarina metabrunnea Western Atlantic 0.8 DL 1901
Nassarina minor Banded dove-shell Western Central Atlantic 1845
Nassarina monilifera Many-spotted dove-shell Western Central Atlantic 1844
Nassarina penicillata Penciled dovesnail East Pacific. 1864
Nassarina prouzetae East Pacific. 2020
Nassarina thetys Western Atlantic. 0.9 DL 1998
Nitidella carinata Western Atlantic. 1844
Nitidella laevigata Western Atlantic. 1758
Nitidella nitida Glossy dovesnail Western Atlantic. 1.6 DL 1822
Nodochila pascua Southeast Pacific 1962
Parvanachis bocapanensis Southeast Pacific 2021
Parvanachis forcellii Southeast Pacific 2021
Parvanachis isabellei Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1839
Parvanachis masirana Western Indian Ocean 2022
Parvanachis nigricans Southeast Pacific 1844
Parvanachis obesa Fat dovesnail Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1845
Parvanachis ostreicola Oyster dovesnail Western Atlantic Ocean. 0.4 DL 1882
Parvanachis paessleri Western Atlantic. 0.5 DL 1905
Parvanachis radwini Western Atlantic. 0.6 DL 1975
Pictocolumbella ocellata Lightning dove-shell Indo-Pacific 1.5 BL 1807
Pleurotomitrella pleurotomoides Indo-Pacific. 1895
Pseudamycla dermestoidea Western Pacific. 1822
Pyrene deshayesii Western Central Pacific 1859
Pyrene flava Yellow dove shell Indo-Pacific. 2.7 BL 1789
Pyrene obtusa Indo-Pacific. 1.7 BL 1832
Pyrene punctata Punctate dove shell Indo-Pacific 2.2 BL 1792
Pyrene scripta Dotted dove shell Indo-Pacific 2 SHL 1822
Pyrene splendidula Western Central Pacific 1894
Pyrene testudinaria Tortoise dove-shell Indo-West Pacific 1807
Pyrene turturina Turtle dove-shell Indo-West Pacific. 1822
Pyrene varians Indo-Pacific. 1832
Pyreneola abyssicola Indo-Pacific. 1877
Pyreneola melvilli Western Central Pacific 1835
Pyreneola semipicta Indo-Pacific. 1894
Rhombinella laevigata Smooth dovesnail Western Central Atlantic. 2 DL 1758
Salitra radwini Southeast Pacific 1973
Seminella comistea Southeast Pacific 1906
Seminella makemoensis Eastern Central Pacific 2015
Seminella peasei Indo-Pacific. 1871
Seminella varia Western Atlantic and East 1.5 DL
Seminella virginea Indo-Pacific. 0.4 BL 1860
Steironepion maculatum Western Central Atlantic. 0.5 DL 1850
Steironepion minor Banded dovesnail East Pacific. 1845
Steironepion moniliferum Many-spotted dovesnail Western Central Atlantic. 0.5 DL 1844
Strombina francesae Western Atlantic. 2.2 DL 1974
Strombina fusinoidea Slender strombina Eastern Central Pacific a 1916
Strombina pumilio Western Atlantic. 2.6 DL 1859
Sulcomitrella kanamaruana Indo-Pacific. 1953
Sulcomitrella monodonta Indo-Pacific. 1958
Sundamitrella impolita Indo-Pacific. 1844
Suturoglypta iontha Lineate dovesnail Western Atlantic. 1 DL 1861
Suturoglypta pretrii Western Atlantic 0.9 DL 1846
Suturoglypta procera Western Atlantic. 1.6 DL 2006
Zafra australensis Eastern Central Pacific 2015
Zafra brevissima Western Central Pacific 1899
Zafra comistea Indo-West Pacific 1906
Zafra debilis Southwest Pacific and Eas 1915
Zafra exilis Western Indian Ocean. 1849
Zafra fulvastra Indo-Pacific. 1899
Zafra fuscolineata Southwest Pacific 1915
Zafra hahajimana Indo-Pacific. 1904
Zafra hervieri Western Central Pacific 1902
Zafra kermadecensis Southwest Pacific 1915
Zafra minuta Western Central Pacific 1860
Zafra mitriformis Indo-Pacific 1860
Zafra obesula Indo-Pacific 1899
Zafra ocellatula Indo-Pacific. 1899
Zafra ornata Western Central Pacific 1868
Zafra phaula Indo-West Pacific. 1901
Zafra pumila Indo-Pacific. 1860
Zafra rapanuiensis Southeast Pacific 2002
Zafra regulus Western Central Pacific 1864
Zafra savignyi Introduced to the Mediter 1939
Zafra selasphora Indo-West Pacific. Intro 1901
Zafra semiclatriata Eastern Central Pacific 1987
Zafra succinea Indo-Pacific. 1899
Zafra troglodytes Indo-Pacific. 1866
Zafra vercoi Indo-Pacific and the Medi 1930
Zafrona belkisae Western Atlantic. 0.9 DL 2007
Zafrona diversa Western Atlantic. 0.9 DL 2007
Zafrona idalina Western Atlantic 0.9 DL 1840
Zafrona isomella Central Pacific 0.6 BL 1840
Zafrona lindae Western Atlantic. 0.8 DL 1992
Zafrona pulchella Beautiful dovesnail Western Central Atlantic. 1.2 DL 1829
Zafrona striatula Indo-Pacific. 0.9 BL 1871
Zafrona sunderlandi Western Atlantic. 1 DL 1987
Zafrona taylorae Western Atlantic. 1.1 DL 1987
Zemitrella cera Indo-Pacific. 1964
Zemitrella siligo Indo-Pacific. 1964



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