Amphissa reticulata

Amphissa reticulata
Shells of Amphissa reticulata (specimens at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Amphissa
Species:	A. reticulata
Binomial name
Amphissa reticulata Dall, 1916
Synonyms
Amphissa versicolor var. reticulataDall, 1916 superseded combination

Amphissa reticulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 17 mm.

(original description) The shell is of a uniform whitish color. It has a very acute spire, and shows fine regular corded spiral sculpture crossed by about 17 nearly straight axial narrow ribs. ^[2]

Distribution

This species is occurs from Kodiak Island, Alaska, to Islas San Benito, Baja California at depths between 15 m and 300 m.

References

1. Amphissa reticulata (Castellanos, 1979) . 20 May 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Dall, W.H. (1916). "Notes on West American Columbellidae". The Nautilus. 30 (3): 27. Retrieved 20 May 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Dall, W.H. (1921). "Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America, from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 112: 214. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
• de Maintenon, M.J. (2019). "The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae)". Zoosymposia. 13: 165. doi:10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.19 . Retrieved 20 May 2025.
• Florida Museum of Natural History: images