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Zanassarina guadalupensis deMaintenon, 2019

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Columbellidae - Dove Shells »  genus Zanassarina

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Zanassarina guadalupensis

Author: De Maintenon, M.J.

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Description

Shell 4-5 mm long, with 4 to 4.5 teleoconch whorls. Chunky shell with shouldering produced by sharp, oblique axials that end abruptly below the suture; shallow spiral grooves also present overall. Sculpture not developed on first whorl. Color and pattern variable, generally off-white with narrow brown spirals between axials and white and brown blotches on them. Aperture edge thin, no denticles on labial edge or columella. Protoconch narrowly conic, generally brown, with 2-2.25 whorls and no velar sinus.
DeMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae).

Interchangeable taxa

Relative to Z conspicua, this species has a much thinner, slightly translucent shell, and the whorls have a slightly squared outline. Zanassarina conspicua has a very thick shell with rounded whorls, with the axial ridges projecting much more at the middle of the whorl.
DeMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae).

Distribution

Guadalupe Island, Baja California. 10 to 40 m. Uncommon.
DeMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae).
Author: Jan Delsing

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