Alia carinata
| Alia carinata | |
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| Sixshells of Alia carinata showing variability | |
| 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 |
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Alia carinata (Hinds, 1844) |
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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.
This species is found in the Eastern Pacific, from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
The adult size of the shell of this species of dove snail can be between 6 mm and 10 mm in length. The body whorl is sometimes carinate (having a pronounced keel), sometimes less so, and sometimes not at all. The shell color is quite variable; it can also be one uniform color or patterned with two shades of color.
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