Columbarium | |
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A shell of Columbarium wormaldi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Columbariidae |
Genus: | Columbarium von Martens, 1881 [1] |
Type species | |
Pleurotoma (Columbarium) spinicinctumMartens, 1881 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Pleurotoma (Columbarium)Martens, 1881 |
Columbarium is a genus of deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinellidae, the pagoda shells. [2]
The shells of most species in this family have a long siphonal canal and a noticeable peripheral keel.
Species within the genus Columbarium include:
Synonyms:
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