#4789 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Rustic Dove-shell
🇳🇱 Boerenduifhoren ·Columbella rustica
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Granada, España
📍 04715 El Ejido, Almería, España
📍 07040 Stintino, Province of Sassari, Italy
📍 Ελλάδα
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Granada, España:© faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 04715 El Ejido, Almería, España:© Juan Valentín · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 07040 Stintino, Province of Sassari, Italy:© Amanda Cogan Barber · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Ελλάδα:© Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Columbella rustica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,560 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Rustic Dove-shell
- Nederlands
- Boerenduifhoren
- scientific name
- Columbella rustica
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Columbellidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,950
- sightings worldwide
- 2,560
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 448231, Wikidata Q5149567, GBIF 4368880, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.