Zemitrella rosea

Zemitrella rosea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Description

The height of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) The shell is turreted. The whorls are flattened and smooth. The aperture is semi-oval, entire, and rounded anteriorly. The columella is straight, with more or less numerous folds.

The shell is white, or pinkish and is spirally banded with dark pink.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Cook Strait southwards and southern islands.

References

• Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Suter, H. (1908). Descriptions of new species of New Zealand marine shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8: 178-191
• Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp.