Zafra pumila
| Zafra pumila | |
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| Shell of Zafra pumila (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Zafra |
| Species: | Z. pumila |
| Binomial name | |
| Zafra pumila (Dunker, 1858) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Zafra pumila is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 4 mm and 20 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Northern KwaZuluNatal, RSA, Réunion and in the Western Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, Queensland, and New South Wales
References
- 1 2 Zafra pumila (Dunker, 1858) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 November 2010.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
External links
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