Euplica scripta

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Speciesbox | image = Euplica_scripta_01.JPG | image_caption = | taxon = Euplica scripta | authority = (Lamarck, 1822) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Buccinum flexuosum'' Lamarck, 1822 * ''Columbella araneosa'' Kiener, 1841 * ''Columbella atladona'' Duclos, 1835 * ''Columbella collaris'' Reeve, 1859 * ''Columbella cornea'' Kiener, 1841 * ''Columbella coronata'' Duclos, 1835 * ''Columbella deveyrai'' Bartsch, 1918 * ''Columbella idulia'' Duclos, 1835 * ''Columbella nivosa'' Reeve, 1859 * ''Columbella ouveensis'' Hervier, R.P.J., 1899 * ''Columbella perlaevis'' G.B. Sowerby III, 1905 * ''Columbella rasotia'' Duclos, 1835 * ''Columbella scripta'' Lamarck, 1822 * ''Columbella tigrina'' Duclos, 1835 * ''Columbella versicolor'' G.B. Sowerby I, 1832 * ''Columbella versicolor'' var. ''hebridarum'' Hervier, 1899 * ''Columbella versicolor'' var. ''ouveensis'' Hervier, 1899 * ''Euplica versicolor'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) * ''Mitrella'' (''Mitrella'') ''flexuosa'' Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 * ''Pyrene versicolor'' Sowerby, G.B. I, 1832 * ''Voluta nasuta'' Gmelin, 1790 }}

'''''Euplica scripta''''', common name : the '''dotted dove shell''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|511780 |''Euplica scripta'' (Lamarck, 1822) ||6 November 2010}}</ref>

==Description== The shell size varies between 9 mm and 22 mm

The oblong shell is subfusiform. The spire is turreted, conical and pointed. It is composed of seven or eight folded whorls, often tuberculated. The upper edge of each whorl is very slightly compressed, which renders the sutures but little apparent. The body whorl, with neither folds nor tubercles, is as large as all the others together, and striated at the base. The ground color of this shell is whitish, and there are delineated brown undulating or zigzag lines, more or less numerous, which descend from the top to the base of the whorls. Sometimes other bands upon the upper whorls form delicate rhombs. The aperture is rather narrow, attenuated at its lower extremity, and as long as the other whorls united. The columella is smooth, straight and entirely white like the rest of the interior of the aperture. The outer lip is indistinctly crenulated.<ref name="Kiener">[https://archive.org/details/generalspeciesic00kien Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837] (described as ''Buccinum flexuosum'' Lamarck, 1822)</ref>

==Distribution== This species is distributed over the entire Indo-Pacific and off Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Australia.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). ''Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar.'' Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{Gastropods.com|key=9|id=2239|title=''Euplica scripta''|access-date=6 November 2010}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54227#page/315/mode/1up Hervier, J. "Le genre Columbella dans l’Archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie." Journal de Conchyliologie 46 (1899): 305–391]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Euplica Scripta}} Category:Columbellidae Category:Gastropods described in 1822 Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck