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Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 208599

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Columbellidae (Family) > Columbella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Columbella Lamarck, 1799
Synonymised
taxa
  Columbella affinis Risso, 1826
Columbella mercatoria mercatoria Nowell-Usticke, 1959
Columbella mercatoria var. scalaris Kobelt, 1897
Columbella peleei Kiener, 1841
Columbella rudis G. B. Sowerby I, 1844
Columbella somersiana Dall & Bartsch, 1911
Columbella variabilis Schumacher, 1817
Voluta mercatoria Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  additional source: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Monsecour K. (2010). Checklist of Columbellidae. pers. com. [details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 93 [details]


from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

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Subspecies Columbella mercatoria mercatoria Nowell-Usticke, 1959 accepted as Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Columbella mercatoria var. scalaris Kobelt, 1897 accepted as Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution Aruba [details]
Belize [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Curaçao [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mexico [details]
Mozambique [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
San Andres [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (146 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Image 
Columbella mercatoria
Columbella mercatoria
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208599
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2000-09-11 06:47:01Z  created  Govaerts, Ann
2000-09-14 06:49:43Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-09-01 19:50:42Z  changed  Monsecour, Kevin
2010-09-03 18:02:17Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Monsecour, K. (2013). Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208599 on 2013-05-19
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