Zafrona striatula

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Speciesbox | image = Zafrona striatula 01.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Zafrona striatula'' | taxon = Zafrona striatula | authority = (Dunker, 1871) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = * ''Amycla striatula'' Dunker, 1871 (original combination) * ''Columbella filamentosa'' Tryon, 1883 * ''Columbella lifouana'' Hervier, 1900 * ''Columbella lifouana var. intermissa'' Hervier, 1900 * ''Columbella lifouana var. rufolineata'' Hervier, 1900 * ''Columbella striatula'' (Dunker, 1871) ((incorrect generic combination)) * ''Zafrona consobrinella'' Rehder, 1980 |display_parents= 3 }}

'''''Zafrona striatula''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zafrona striatula (Dunker, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511653 on 2023-10-17</ref>

==Description== The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

(Described as ''Columbella filamentosa'') The shell is slightly but closely longitudinally ribbed, with revolving striae at the base. The outer lip is varicosely thickened, smooth within, sinuate behind, terminating in a short but distinctly constricted siphonal canal. The shell is yellowish brown, with numerous equidistant narrow revolving chestnut lines.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77793 Tryon, G. W. (1883). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, ser. 1., vol. 5: Marginellidae, Olividae, Columbellidae. pp 1-276, pls 1-63. Philadelphia, published by the author.]</ref>

==Distribution== This marine species occurs off French Polynesia, Hawaii, Easter Island, Cook Islands.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Monsecour K. & Monsecour D. (2018). Columbellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from French Polynesia. Gloria Maris. 56(4): 118–151. * Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp

==External links== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35502856 Dunker, W. (1871). Mollusca nova Musei Godeffroy Hamburgensis. Malakozoologische Blätter. 18: 150-175] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15980699 Hervier J. (1900 ("1899") ). Le genre Columbella dans l'archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 47(4): 305–391, pls 13-14] * [https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5242 Rehder, H.A. (1980). The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Sala y Gómez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 289: 1-167, 15 figs, 14 pls] * [https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.200600015 Monsecour, K.; Köhler, F. (2006). Annotated list of columbellid types held in the Malacological Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Columbellidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin – Zoologische Reihe. 82(2): 282-306]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zafrona Striatula}} striatula Category:Gastropods described in 1871 Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Dunker