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Austromitra zafra Powell, 1952

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Costellariidae »  genus Austromitra

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Austromitra zafra

Author: Powell, A.W.B.

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Description

Shell small, narrowly fusiform, uniformly dark reddish-brown, sculptured with numerous rather weak narrowly rounded axials crossed by closely spaced spiral cords with linear interspaces. Whorls 5, including a smooth pupoid protoconch of 1,5 whorls. Axials slender, vertical, about 25 on the penultimate. Spiral cords evenly developed over all post-nuclear whorls, including the fasciole, 16 on penultimate. Columellar plaits four, oblique, uppermost strongest.
Height. 5.25 mm.; diameter, 2.25 mm.
Locality: Mayor Island, 1 mile off south-west end. from stomach of a tarakihi, taken in 50 fathoms (Mr. Gordon Williams, 20/2/1949).
Holotype: Presented to the Auckland Museum by Mr. Gordon Williams.
Powell, A. W. B. (1952). New Zealand molluscan systematics, with descriptions of new species. Part 1.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Austromitra zafra Powell, 1952]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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