Zemitrella sulcata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
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| Shell of Zemitrella sulcata (specimen at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Zemitrella |
| Species: | Z. sulcata
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| Binomial name | |
| Zemitrella sulcata (F. W. Hutton, 1873)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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- Subspecies
- Zemitrella sulcata constans A. W. B. Powell, 1955
- Zemitrella sulcata sulcata (F. W. Hutton, 1873)
Description
editThe height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 4 mm.
(Original description) The shell is turreted and show convex whorls. The suture is straight and deep. The aperture is obovate, prolonged into a very short siphonal canal. The body whorl is about as long as the spire. The whorls are rather flattened, deeply distantly spirally grooved, about eight on the body whorl. The outer lip is thickened. The shell is reddish brown, sometimes variegated with white. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off South Island, from Cook Strait south to Snares Islands and Auckland Island
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zemitrella sulcata (F. W. Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511770 on 2023-11-16
- ^ Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
- Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.