Anachis coronata

Anachis coronata
Shell of Anachis coronata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Anachis
Species:	A. coronata
Binomial name
Anachis coronata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Synonyms
Anachis coronata coronata(G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) (original combination) Colombella sowerbyiDuclos, 1848 Columbella coronataG. B. Sowerby I, 1832 (original combination) Columbella sugillataReeve, 1859

Anachis coronata is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Anachis coronata hannanaHertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm.

(Described by P.P. Carpenter) The specimens differ not a little from the type and among themselves. Some specimens are slender, acuminate, with the tubercles changed into ribs, except the last few. In these, the ribs are very numerous and fine. Two others have more the typical shape of Anachis varia , with the ribs further apart, and in front slightly tubercular. They are known from the previous species by the smoothness of the upper whorls. The inside of the outer lip is more finely toothed (the denticles run into grooves), and is often richly stained. The painting is very fine; brownish purple pencilings on a light ground. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of California and in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico and Panama

References

1. Anachis coronata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) . 15 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Carpenter, P.P. (1857). Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan Mollusca in the British Museum collected by Frederick Reigen. London: British Museum. p. 527. Retrieved 15 June 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls

External links

• Broderip, W. J.; Sowerby, G. B. I. (1832–1833). "Descriptions of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean". Proceedings of the Committee of Science and correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. Part 2: 116.
• Reeve, L.A. (1858–1859). Monograph of the Genus Columbella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 11, pl. 1-37 and unpaginated text. London: L. Reeve & Co. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
• Duclos, P.L. (1840). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines à l'état vivant et fossile, publiée par monographie. Genre Colombelle. Paris: Didot. p. 8.