Zafra selasphora
| Zafra selasphora | |
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| Sgell of Zafra selasphora (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. selasphora |
| Binomial name | |
| Zafra selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Zafra selasphora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 3.5 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and in the Indian Ocean along the Aldabra Atoll
References
- 1 2 Zafra selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 January 2011.
- Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.
- Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453
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