Euplica scripta

Euplica scripta, common name : the dotted dove shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]

Euplica scripta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Columbellidae
Genus:
Euplica
Species:
E. scripta
Binomial name
Euplica scripta
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum flexuosum Lamarck, 1822
  • Columbella araneosa Kiener, 1841
  • Columbella atladona Duclos, 1835
  • Columbella collaris Reeve, 1859
  • Columbella cornea Kiener, 1841
  • Columbella coronata Duclos, 1835
  • Columbella deveyrai Bartsch, 1918
  • Columbella idulia Duclos, 1835
  • Columbella nivosa Reeve, 1859
  • Columbella ouveensis Hervier, R.P.J., 1899
  • Columbella perlaevis G.B. Sowerby III, 1905
  • Columbella rasotia Duclos, 1835
  • Columbella scripta Lamarck, 1822
  • Columbella tigrina Duclos, 1835
  • Columbella versicolor G.B. Sowerby I, 1832
  • Columbella versicolor var. hebridarum Hervier, 1899
  • Columbella versicolor var. ouveensis Hervier, 1899
  • Euplica versicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
  • Mitrella (Mitrella) flexuosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
  • Pyrene versicolor Sowerby, G.B. I, 1832
  • Voluta nasuta Gmelin, 1790

Description

The shell size varies between 9 mm and 22 mm

The oblong shell is subfusiform. The spire is turreted, conical and pointed. It is composed of seven or eight folded whorls, often tuberculated. The upper edge of each whorl is very slightly compressed, which renders the sutures but little apparent. The body whorl, with neither folds nor tubercles, is as large as all the others together, and striated at the base. The ground color of this shell is whitish, and there are delineated brown undulating or zigzag lines, more or less numerous, which descend from the top to the base of the whorls. Sometimes other bands upon the upper whorls form delicate rhombs. The aperture is rather narrow, attenuated at its lower extremity, and as long as the other whorls united. The columella is smooth, straight and entirely white like the rest of the interior of the aperture. The outer lip is indistinctly crenulated.[2]

Distribution

This species is distributed over the entire Indo-Pacific and off Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Australia.

References
  1. Euplica scripta (Lamarck, 1822) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 November 2010.
  2. Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837 (described as Buccinum flexuosum Lamarck, 1822)
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • "Euplica scripta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  • Hervier, J. "Le genre Columbella dans l’Archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie." Journal de Conchyliologie 46 (1899): 305–391
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