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Zafrona

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Description

Zafrona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zafrona, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2305741	https://www.gbif.org/species/2305741
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	62887	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62887

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Columbellidae : Zafrona

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Columbellidae	Swainson 1840
genus	Zafrona	Iredale 1916

Scientific Name

Zafrona Iredale, 1916

Name Published In

Iredale, T. (1916). On some new and old molluscan names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 12: 27-37.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Zafrona	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1977
Zafrona	genus	belongs to Columbellinae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Zafrona	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

omnivore, grazer

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Herbivorous omnivore according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. Wilson. 1994. Australian Marine Shells 2

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zafrona

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Zafrona azteci species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona belkisae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona dicomata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona diversa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona fatuhiva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona idalina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona incerta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona isomella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona kilburni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona lifuana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona lightfooti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona lindae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona macronata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona pleuriferoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona pulchella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona samadiae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona somalica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona striatula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona subfelina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona sunderlandi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona taylorae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona tortugana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona trifilosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zafrona ursula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Zafrona Iredale
1977	Zafrona Ladd p. 45
1994	Zafrona Wilson p. 97
2001	Zafrona Todd

References

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

Ladd H. S. (1977) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533, 1-84

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Iredale, T. (1916). On some new and old molluscan names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 12: 27-37. - via World Register of Marine Species

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Proc. Malac. Soc. London, 12 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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