Columbellidae
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| LIve individual of the columbellid species Alia carinata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
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Columbellidae Swainson, 1840 |
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The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of minute to small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
Species in this family are found worldwide, but are most abundant in shallow tropical water.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Columbellidae consists of two subfamilies:
The family Columbellidae contains these genera:
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