Species Zafra pumila (Dunker, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella pumila Dunker, W. 1860. Neue Japanische Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter 6: 221-240 [224 (not figured)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SMF 313216a, Decima, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Janssen, R. 1993. Die typen and typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 81. Die typen der von Dunker 1860/1861 beschriebene japanischen Meeresmollusken. Arkiv für Molluskenkunde 122: 403-435 [414].
• Columbella (Anachis) miniscula Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [334].
• Columbella pumila Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1863. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 11(3): 276-287, pl. 12 [281, pl. 12, fig. 4] [junior homonym].
• Columbella regulus Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1864. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 3 12: 41-42 [41].
• Columbella (Anachis) gowllandi Brazier, J. 1875. Description of eleven new species of terrestrial and marine shells from north-eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 668-672 [Date published 1 April, 1875] [671, pl. 83, fig. 15-6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.11504 dry, under stones, Great Barrier Reef, Claremont Group, Morris (Eclipse) Island, Queensland, Australia [13°28'58.8'S, 143°43'1.2'E].
• Columbella (Anachis) minuscula Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [334].
• Columbella atomella Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the genus Columbella. pls 2-23 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica; or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11 plates 1-5 + unpaginated captions. [pl. 20, fig. 108] [as ?Columbella atomella Reeve, 1858].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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: 282-306 [297]

Generic Combinations

• Zafra minuscula (Gould, 1860).
• Zafra pumila (Dunker, 1860).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West pacific. Australian distribution unknown due to revision of taxonomy.

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, mangroves, marine.

General References

Drivas, J. & Jay, M. 1990. The Columbellidae of Réunion Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum 31: 163-200 [188]

Sleurs, W.J. 1987. The marine microgastropods from the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) III. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Pyreninae), with description of two new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 4: 33-68 [37]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [109] (As Z. gowllandi & Z. regulus )

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