{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Seminella comistea (MNHN-IM-2015-2329).jpeg |image_caption = Shell of ''Seminella comistea'' (specimen at MNHN, Paris) |taxon = Seminella |authority = Mörch, 1852 <ref>Mörch, O.A.L. (1852) Catalogus Conchyliorum quae Reliquit D’Alphonso d’Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Terth Eques. Vol. 1. L. Klein, Hafniae, 74 pp.</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> |synonyms = ''Columbella (Seminella)'' <small>Pease, 1868</small> |type_species = ''Cythara varia'' <small>Pease, 1860</small> |display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Seminella''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|206248|''Seminella'' ||22 June 2012}}</ref>

==Description== The shells in this genus are small. They contain axial ribs and a fine spiral sculpture. The denticles are inside the outer lip.

==Species== Species within the genus ''Seminella'' include: * ''Seminella biconica'' <small>K. Monsecour & D. Monsecour, 2016</small> * ''Seminella comistea'' <small>(Melvill, 1906)</small> * ''Seminella corrugata'' <small>K. Monsecour & D. Monsecour, 2016</small> * ''Seminella infirmisculpta'' <small>K. Monsecour & D. Monsecour, 2018</small> * ''Seminella makemoensis'' <small>K. Monsecour & D. Monsecour, 2015</small> * ''Seminella peasei'' <small>(Martens & Langkavel, 1871)</small> * ''Seminella roseotincta'' <small>(Hervier, 1899)</small> * ''Seminella virginea'' <small>(Gould, 1860)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6658970 Pease, W.H. (1868). Notes on the remarks of Dr. P. P. Carpenter (published in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865), on certain species of marine Gastropoda, named by W. Harper Pease. American Journal of Conchology. 3(3): 231-234] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42256639 Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1997). Report on a collection of Columbellidae (Mollusca, Gastopoda) from the west Indian Ocean region (Madagascar, Glorieuses Islands, Comores Islands, and nearby banks and coral shawls) with descriptions of three new species and one new genus. Apex. 12 (1): 31-42]

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Category:Columbellidae Category:Taxa named by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch

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