Zemitrella sulcata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zemitrella sulcata (F. W. Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511770 on 2023-11-16
Subspecies Zemitrella sulcata constans A. W. B. Powell, 1955 Zemitrella sulcata sulcata (F. W. Hutton, 1873)
Description The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 4 mm.
(Original description) The shell is turreted and show convex whorls. The suture is straight and deep. The aperture is obovate, prolonged into a very short siphonal canal. The body whorl is about as long as the spire. The whorls are rather flattened, deeply distantly spirally grooved, about eight on the body whorl. The outer lip is thickened. The shell is reddish brown, sometimes variegated with white.Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp
Distribution This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off South Island, from Cook Strait south to Snares Islands and Auckland Island
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.
External links Suter, H. (1904). Mollusca. Pp 57–95 in Hutton, F.W. (ed.), Index faunae Novae Zealandiae. Dulau, London Hutton, F. W. (1885). Descriptions of new Tertiary shells. Part 1. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 17: 313-324.