Columbella fuscata

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,200 meters (0 to -10,499 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Columbella

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. mercatoria (West Indian Dovesnail) · C. nodulosa (Rockfish) · C. rusticoides (Rusty Dovesnail)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the shells, arranged according to the Lamarckian system: with their authorities, synonymes, and references to works where figured or described, contained in the collection of John C. Jay. New York: Craighead, 1850. url p. 349.
• Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. New-York: 1824-1876. url p. 311.
• Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Pomona, Calif., Western Society of Malacologists. url p. 29.
• Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. Albany, Regents of the University of the State of New York. url p. 35.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 43 1904 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 435, p. 435.
• California art & nature San Diego url .
• Catalogue of marine shells in Lorenzo G. Yates' collection, Santa Barbara, Cal. Santa Barbara, Cal., 1886. url p. 37.
• Catalogue of shells collected at Panama: with notes on their synonymy, station, and geographical distribution / New York: R. Craighead, 1852. url , .
• Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum, collected by Frederick Reigen / described by Philip P. Carpenter. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1857. url p. 489, p. 492, p. 543.
• Catalogue of the marine mollusks of Japan, with descriptions of new species and notes on others collected by Frederick Stearns, by Henry A. Pilsbry. .. Detroit, Frederick Stearns, 1895. url p. 38, p. 38.
• Check lists of the shells of North America Prepared for the Smithsonian institution, by Isaac Lea, P. P. Carpenter, Wm. Stimpson, W. G. Binney, and Temple Prime Washington, Smithsonian institution1860 url p. 12.
• Conchological miscellany. Boston, etc., 1834?-1883? url p. 168.
• List of papers contributions to natural history, etc. chiefly on the conchology of North America, by Robert E.C. Stearns. San Francisco, 1878. url p. 2, p. 4.
• Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1879-1898. url p. 105, p. 105, p. 225, p. 225, p. 225, p. 228, p. 228, p. 228, p. 264, p. 264, p. 264.
• Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url , p. 162, p. 18, p. 39, p. 94.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 245.
• Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Printed for the Society by Richard Taylor, [1831-1832] url p. 117, p. 117, p. 117.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 17 1894 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 182, p. 2, p. 216, p. 436, p. 537.
• Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences. url , .
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 188, p. 344, p. 401.
• Quarterly journal of microscopical science. Oxford: Clarendon Press url p. 178.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 2 1862 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 12, p. 180, p. 38, p. 89.
• Texas conchologist. Houston, Houston Conchology Society url p. 31, p. 68.
• The Journal of malacology. 10 1903 London: Dulau & Co., 1894-[1905] url p. 28.
• The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda. Cambridge, Harvard College, Museum of Comparative Zoology]1908. url p. 216, p. 435.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 124, p. 124, p. 27, p. 27, p. 44, p. 67, p. 67.
• The West American scientist. San Diego, Calif.: C.R. Orcutt, 1884-1919. url , , .
• The conchologist's nomenclator: a catalogue of all the recent species of shells / by Agnes Catlow; assisted by Lovell Reeve. London: Reeve Brothers, 1845. url p. 265.
• The mollusks of western North America embracing the second report made to the British Association on this subject, with other papers, reprinted by permission, with a general index / by Philip P. Carpenter. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1872. url p. 28.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 8 1935 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 30.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 06, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1909902
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16071583
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 618414

Footnotes

1. Mean = -284.140 meters (-932.218 feet), Standard Deviation = 680.690 based on 151 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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