''Zafra mitriformis'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
in the
family
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Columbellidae
The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Columbellidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marin ...
, the dove snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zafra mitriformis A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511620 on 2023-10-12]
Description
The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...
.
References
* Nomura, S. & Zinbô, N. (1940) Some turrid molluscs from northeast Honsyû, Japan. Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural History Research Bulletin, 19, 17–25, pl. 2.
* Habe T. 1960. - New species of molluscs from the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory, Reihoku-cho, Amakusa, Kumamoto Pref., Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(2): 289-298
* Liu, J.Y.
uiyu(ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 6: 331-337Gould, A. A. (1860). Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 7: 323-336Conchology.be: image
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mitriformis
Gastropods described in 1860