Zafra salutaris
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| Shell of Zafra salutaris (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Zafra |
| Species: | Z. salutaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Zafra salutaris (Melvill, 1910)
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Zafra salutaris is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell attains a length of 2.75 mm, and a diameter of 1.2 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The short and small shell is fusiform, shiny and smooth. It is white, or straw-zoned. The shell contains six whorls. The apical whorls are small, while the remaining whorls are gradated and deeply impressed at the sutures. They are gently left-ribbed above and thickened below the sutures. The body whorl is left-ribbed, or, as often, the ribs are evanescent, smooth and spirally striated at the base. The aperture is narrowly curved. The inner lip is denticulate, thick, straight in the middle, then curved.The siphonal canal is short.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Bombay.
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zafra salutaris (Melvill, 1910). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511631 on 2023-10-12
- ^ Melvill, J. C. (1910). Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 8, 6: 1-1