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Zafra selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901) 
AphiaID: 182803

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Columbellidae (Family) > Zafra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Zafra A. Adams, 1860
Synonymised
taxa		  Columbella selasphora Melvill & Standen, 1901 (original combination)
 Pyrene selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
Sources  additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Monsecour K. (2010). Checklist of Columbellidae. pers. com. [details]

identification resource: Kilburn R.N. & Marais J.P. (2010) Columbellidae. Pp. 60-104, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
to CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Note  Taxonomy: Zafra selasphora is a Lessepsian migrant that has been erroneously recorded in the Mediterranean under the name Anachis troglodytes. The latter is a valid species that does not live in the Mediterranean. [details]
Image 
Zafra selasphora
Zafra selasphora
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182803
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-10-07 07:27:36Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-09-01 19:50:42Z  changed  Monsecour, Kevin
  
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  Citation: Monsecour, K.; Gofas, S. (2013). Zafra selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182803 on 2013-05-25
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