Falsuszafrona incerta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Falsuszafrona |
| Species: | F. incerta
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| Binomial name | |
| Falsuszafrona incerta (Stearns, 1892)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2.75 mm.
(Original description) The small shell is rather solid and acutely ovate. The elevated spire is pointed. The shell contains six to seven whorls, moderately convex, with inconspicuous revolving grooves. The upper whorls are delicately sculptured with close-set rounded longitudinal ribs. The apex is obtuse. The aperture measures nearly half the length of the shell. The outer lip is somewhat thickened with five to seven denticles on the inner side. The columella shows a single rather prominent plait or tubercle just below the middle. The surface is colored by five to six brownish-red bands, alternating with as many white. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Galapagos
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Falsuszafrona incerta (Stearns, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1397836 on 2023-10-18
- ^ Stearns, R. E. C. (1892). Preliminary descriptions of new molluscan forms from west American regions, etc. The Nautilus. 6(8): 85-89
- Pelorce J. (2020). Les Columbellidae collectés dans les eaux profondes autour de l'île de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) pendant la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 (2015) du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Iberus. 38(1): 55-111