This page links to species in the family Columbellidae, commonly called dove shells, from Kwajalein. Most species within the family range from tiny to small. They are frequently highly variable in color and difficult to positively identify, making the names we use for local specimens often uncertain. For many of these species, even the generic placement is a guess. I suspect that a number of what we show as different species are really just variations of one or a few species. There is much work left to be done on Indo-Pacific columbellids. We welcome any corrections at uwkwaj@yahoo.com. (Click on a thumbnail for pages with larger images.)
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