Species Zafra darwini (Angas, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella darwini Angas, G.F. 1877. A further list of additional species of marine Mollusca to be included in the fauna of Port Jackson and the coasts of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 178-194 [181].
• Columbella lentiginosa Reeve, L.A. 1859. Monograph of the genus Columbella. pl. 1, 24-37 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11. [pl. 37, fig. 240] [non Hind, 1844].
• Zafra almiranta Hedley, C. 1915. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 695–755, pls 77–85 [Date published 26 Feb.] [743, pl. 85, fig. 92].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.8070 dry, Torres Strait, Darnley Island, Queensland, Australia [9°34'58.8"S, 143°46'1.2"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Zafra darwini (Angas, 1877).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Oceania, Eastern Indian Ocean, Indo-Arabia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [4]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [109]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	29-May-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED