{ { Taxobox
| name = Pardalinops testudinaria
| image = Pardalinops_testudinaria_01.jpg
| image_caption =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropodaclade Hypsogastropodaclade Neogastropoda | superfamilia = Buccinoidea | familia = Columbellidae | subfamilia = | genus = Pardalinops | species = P. testudinariaa | binomial = Pardalinops testudinaria | binomial_authority = (Link, 1807) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = Columbella anitis Duclos, 1846 Columbella electroides Reeve, 1858 Columbella fabula G.B. Sowerby I, 1844 Columbella japonica Reeve, 1858 Columbella lactescens Souverbie, 1866 Columbella padonosta Duclos, 1835 Columbella palmerina Duclos, 1835 Columbella pardalina Lamarck, 1822 Columbella pardalina subcribraria Pilsbry, 1905 (suspected synonym) Columbella pardalina var. andamanica G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875 Columbella pardalina var. bifasciata Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. crocea Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. elongatula Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. fulgurata Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. lanceolata Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. laxa Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. minor Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. nigrescens Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. picturata Hervier, 1900 Columbella pardalina var. sublactescen Hervier, 1900 Columbella pelotina Duclos, 1835 Columbella picta Reeve, 1859 Columbella quintilia Duclos, 1848 Columbella sagena Reeve, 1859 Columbella sulcata Duclos, 1835 Columbella testudinaria Link, 1807 Columbella tylerae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 Columbella virginea Duclos, 1835 Columbella vulpecula G.B. Sowerby I, 1844 Columbella zopilla Duclos, 1848 Pardalina testudinaria (Link, 1807) Pyrene lacteoides Habe & Kosuge, 1966 Pyrene subcrebraria Pilsbry, 1905 Pyrene testudinaria (Link, 1807) Pyrene testudinaria nigropardalis Habe & Kosuge, 1966 Pyrene tylerae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) Pyrene vulpecula (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844) }}Pardalinops testudinaria, common name : the tortoise dove shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 41 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania; off the Philippines; in the Western Pacific Ocean and off Australia.
References
Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56 Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates''. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp Kilburn R.N. & Marais J.P. (2010) Columbellidae. Pp. 60-104, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.