An assessment of the genus Columbella Lamarck, 1799 (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) from eastern Atlantic

Valeria Russini; Giulia Fassio; Maria Vittoria Modica; Marta J. deMaintenon; Marco Oliverio

doi:10.5252/z2017n2a2

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30 June 2017 An assessment of the genus Columbella Lamarck, 1799 (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) from eastern Atlantic

Valeria Russini, Giulia Fassio, Maria Vittoria Modica, Marta J. deMaintenon, Marco Oliverio

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Zoosystema, 39(2):197-212 (2017). https://doi.org/10.5252/z2017n2a2

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Three species of the neogastropod genus ColumbellaLamarck, 1799 are recognised from the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. One is the common Mediterranean C. rustica (Linnaeus, 1758), with paucispiral protoconch, extending its range in the Atlantic South to Senegal and North to Portugal. Columbella adansoniMenke, 1853, with multispiral protoconch is restricted to the Macaronesian archipelagoes. A third species, also with multispiral protoconch, from West Africa is recognised through molecular methods, and the name C. xiphitella Duclos, 1840 is employed by correcting the original erroneous locality (“Californie”) to Gabon. Except for protoconch features, no major morphological characters are available to separate the three species; however diagnostic species-level differences in specific positions in the cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) sequences are present between all three species.

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Valeria Russini, Giulia Fassio, Maria Vittoria Modica, Marta J. deMaintenon, and Marco Oliverio "An assessment of the genus Columbella Lamarck, 1799 (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) from eastern Atlantic," Zoosystema 39(2), 197-212, (30 June 2017). https://doi.org/10.5252/z2017n2a2

Received: 21 June 2016; Accepted: 24 January 2017; Published: 30 June 2017

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