Graphicomassa ligula

Graphicomassa ligula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Graphicomassa
Species:	G. ligula
Binomial name
	Graphicomassa ligula; (Duclos, 1835)
Synonyms
	Columbella acicula Reeve, 1858; Columbella carnea Hervier, R.P.J., 1899; Columbella lactea Duclos, 1835; Columbella ligula Duclos, 1835 (basionym); Columbella ligula var. carnea Hervier, 1899; Columbella ligula var. nivalis Hervier, 1899; Columbella nivalis Hervier, R.P.J., 1899; Columbella seychellensis Smith, 1884; Mitra insignis C.B. Adams, 1853; Mitrella ligula (Duclos, 1840); Pyrene ligula (Duclos, 1835);

Graphicomassa ligula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 11 mm and 25 mm

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra and Réunion and in the Indo-West Pacific and off New Zealand

^ ^a ^b Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Graphicomassa ligula (Duclos, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=577124 on 29 May 2014

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 Columbella, 1 p., 13 pls. Didot, Paris
Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll

"Mitrella (Graphicomassa) ligula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 4 November 2010.

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