Zafrona pulchella

Zafrona pulchella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]

Zafrona pulchella
Three shells of Zafrona pulchella (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Columbellidae
Genus:
Zafrona
Species:
Z. pulchella
Binomial name
Zafrona pulchella
(Blainville, 1829)
Synonyms
  • Anachis subcostulata (C. B. Adams, 1845)
  • Anachis subcostulata var. subcincta Nowell-Usticke, 1969
  • Buccinum oryza Dunker, 1847
  • Buccinum pulchellum Blainville, 1829 (original combination)
  • Columbella subcostulata C. B. Adams, 1845
  • Mitrella elegantula Mörch, 1860
  • Pyrene pulchella G.B. Sowerby, 1844

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 12 mm.

The oblong shell is lanceolate and subturreted. It isof a whitish or reddish color, beautifully varied with simple or decussated brown spots or lines, forming sometimes a very elegant network. The spire is composed of six pretty distinct, slightly swollen whorls. Numerous longitudinal folds, slightly projecting, and crossed by decurrent striae, almost amounting to folds, can be seen at the base of the body whorl. The whitish aperture is narrow and elongated. The outer lip is rather thin and indistinctly denticulated within.[2]

Distribution

This spêcies occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico .

References
  1. Zafrona pulchella (Blainville, 1829). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  2. Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837 (described as Buccinum pulchellum)
  • Blainville (1829). Faune Française., pl. 7, fig. 4.
  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • "Zafrona pulchella". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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