Euplica festiva

Euplica festiva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Euplica festiva
Shell of Euplica festiva (neotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Euplica
Species:	E. festiva
Binomial name
Euplica festiva (Deshayes, G.P. in Laborde, L.E.J. & M. Linant, 1834)
Synonyms
Columbella (Nitidella) seychellarum E. von Martens, 1904 (basionym) Columbella albinodulosa Gaskoin, 1851 Columbella albinodulosa ogasawarana Pilsbry, H.A., 1904 Columbella azora Duclos, 1835 Columbella festiva de Laborde, 1928 Columbella festiva Deshayes, 1834 (original combination) Columbella indica Reeve, 1858 Columbella seychellarum Martens, 1903 Euplica reticulata Cossigani, 2005 Pyrene azora (Duclos, 1840)

Description

The shell size varies between 7 mm and 11 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Madagascar, the Seychelles and Réunion and along West India, the Bonin Islands and south of Japan.

• Kilburn R.N. & Marais J.P. (2010) Columbellidae. Pp. 60-104, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.

References

• Cossignani T. (2005) Nuove Euplica del Madagascar (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia, Neogastropoda, Muricoidea). Malacologia Mostra Mondiala 46: 4-5.
• Martens, E. von. (1904). Die beschalten Gastropoden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899. A. Systematisch-geographischer Teil. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia". 7(A): 1–146, pls i–v.

External links

• "Euplica festiva". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
• Deshayes G.P. (1833). [Coquilles de la Mer Rouge in L. de Laborde, Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée par Léon de Laborde et Linant. Giard, Paris. 87 pp, 69 pl., 2 maps.]
• Duclos P.L. (1840). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile, publiée par monographie. Genre Colombelle. Didot, Paris. 13 pl.
• Gaskoin, J. S. (1852 ["1851"). Descriptions of twenty species of Columbellae, and one species of Cypraea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 2-14]