Zafra savignyi (Moazzo, 1939)
Red Sea to eastern Mediterranean.
Predator in the infralittoral. Often found on Posidonia leaves.
Original taxon: Columbella savignyi.
 
Above: the species in P. G. Moazzo: Mollusques testacés marins du Canal de Suez, Cairo 1939, p.154.
Sculpture made of about 12 axial ribs. Colour and pattern: « light red-brown background, run spirally by a whitish band, and with darker red-brown flames; the single whitish band on the body whorl is very large, and placed in a subcentral position; the subsutural zone is of the same colour as the background; the interspaces between the axial ribs are brown coloured just above the suture. » – Tringali & Villa: “On the identity of the Lessepsian species of the genus Anachis H.& A.Adams, 1853, subgenus Zafra A.Adams, 1860, found in the Levant Sea”, La Conchiglia vol. 27, Roma 1995, p.16.
 
« This species resembles Z. selasphora, from which it is easily distinguished by the folded columella and the pattern of oblique lines. » (CIESM) and also by the lack of labial teeth.

In tidal pool, Yumurtalık, Adana, SE. Turkey. 3,5mm.

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