| Alia carinata | |
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| Six shells of Alia carinata showing variability | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Alia |
| Species: | A. carinata |
| Binomial name | |
| Alia carinata (Hinds, 1844) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Alia carinata, common name the carinate dove shell, is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. [1]
This species is found in the Eastern Pacific, from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
The adult size of the shell of this species of dove snail can be between 6 mm and 10 mm in length. [2] The body whorl is sometimes carinate (having a pronounced keel), sometimes less so, and sometimes not at all. The shell color is quite variable; it can also be one uniform color or patterned with two shades of color.
Alia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
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