Description: Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) - apical view of a common West Indies dove snail shell. Family Columbellidae - columbellid snails occupy seagrass beds and rubbly seafloors. They range from being algae grazers to predators to scavengers. Date: 23 February 2011, 23:14. Source: Columbella mercatoria (West Indies dove snail) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 3. Author: James St. John.
Description: Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) - umbilical view of a common West Indies dove snail shell. Family Columbellidae - columbellid snails occupy seagrass beds and rubbly seafloors. They range from being algae grazers to predators to scavengers. Date: 23 February 2011, 23:18. Source: Columbella mercatoria (West Indies dove snail) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 8. Author: James St. John.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) - West Indies dove snail shell (modern) (abapertural view) The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores. This is a beachworn West Indies dove snail, Columbella mercatoria. The dove snails are in the Family Columbellidae - columbellid gastropods occupy seagrass beds and rubbly seafloors. Their feeding style ranges from algae grazing to predation to scavenging. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Columbellidae Locality: Brewers Bay, St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands. Date: 29 September 2020, 17:08:43. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50409201597/. Author: James St. John.
Description: Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) - apical view of a common West Indies dove snail shell. Family Columbellidae - columbellid snails occupy seagrass beds and rubbly seafloors. They range from being algae grazers to predators to scavengers. Date: 23 February 2011, 23:16. Source: Columbella mercatoria (West Indies dove snail) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 7. Author: James St. John.
Description: Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) - apertural view of a common West Indies dove snail shell, 1.65 cm tall. Family Columbellidae - columbellid snails occupy seagrass beds and rubbly seafloors. They range from being algae grazers to predators to scavengers. Date: 23 February 2011, 23:15. Source: Columbella mercatoria (West Indies dove snail) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 6. Author: James St. John.