Zafra mitriformis is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zafra mitriformis A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511620 on 2023-10-12
Description The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter is 2 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is mitriform, thickened in the middle, and white, with a dark brown band along the sutures. The body whorl is tinged with red at the base and is encircled at the periphery by a narrow red transverse line. The shell has 6.5 whorls, which are rather flat and longitudinally plicate. The plications are strong, oblique, and somewhat distant from one another. The body whorl is constricted anteriorly and obliquely sulcate. Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 6: 331-337
Distribution This marine species occurs in the Sea of Japan.
References
Nomura, S. & Zinbô, N. (1940) Some turrid molluscs from northeast Honsyû, Japan. Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural History Research Bulletin, 19, 17–25, pl. 2. Habe T. 1960. - New species of molluscs from the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory, Reihoku-cho, Amakusa, Kumamoto Pref., Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(2): 289-298 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links 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: 323-336 Conchology.be: image