| Zafra salutaris | |
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| Shell of Zafra salutaris (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Zafra |
| Species: | Z. salutaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Zafra salutaris (Melvill, 1910) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Zafra salutaris is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. [1]
The length of the shell attains 2.75 mm, its diameter 1.2 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The short and small shell is fusiform, shiny and smooth. It is white, or straw-zoned. The shell contains six whorls. The apical whorls are small, the rest gradated. They are much impressed at the suture. They are gently left-ribbed above and thickened below the sutures. The body whorl is left-ribbed, or, as often, the ribs are evanescent, smooth and spirally striated at the base. The aperture is narrowly curved. The inner lip is denticulate, thick, straight in the middle, then curved.The siphonal canal is short. [2]
This marine species occurs off Bombay.
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