''Zafra succinea'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

in the family

Columbellidae The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of minute to small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Columbellidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) Wo ...

, the dove snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zafra succinea (Hervier, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511637 on 2023-10-06

Taxonomy

Treated as a synonym of ''

Zafra troglodytes ''Zafra troglodytes'' is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. Description Shell size varies between 2 mm and 6 mm. This species is more biconical in shape than '' Zafra succinea'', with a carinated p ...

'' (Souverbie, 1866) by Sleurs (1987)

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Lifou Island, Loyalty Islands and Papua New Guinea; also off the Philippines.

References

* Sleurs W. (1987). The marine microgastropods from the Northern coast of Papua New Guinea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) III. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Pyreninae), with description of two new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology. 4: 33–68, pl. A, B

External links

Hervier J. (1900 ("1899") ). Le genre Columbella dans l'archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 47(4): 305–391, pls 13-14.

Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1997). Report on a collection of Columbellidae (Mollusca, Gastopoda) from the west Indian Ocean region (Madagascar, Glorieuses Islands, Comores Islands, and nearby banks and coral shawls) with descriptions of three new species and one new genus. Apex. 12 (1): 31-42

succinea ''Succinea'', common name the amber snails, is a large genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Succinea Draparnaud, 1801. Access ...

Gastropods described in 1899 {{Columbellidae-stub