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Zafra succinea (Hervier, 1899)
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Columbella succinea Hervier, 1899: 375-376, pl. 14 fig. 5.
Zafra succinea (Hervier, 1899). Drivas & Jay, 1990: 188, 190, fig. 45; 1997a: 29; 1997b: 35, fig. 32; Higo et al., 1999: 249 (as a synonym of troglodytes Souverbie, 1866).
Zafra (Seminella) succinea (Hervier, 1899). Okutani (ed.), 2000: 437, pl. 217, fig. 68.
The shell in this species is 2.75 to 3.5 mm long, white to off-white, usually rather obese, with 3 to 3.5 teleoconch whorls. The body whorl is straw-coloured in some, and in this case there is a narrow white band below the suture, which is somewhat channeled; in many specimens the shell is entirely white. The aperture is narrow and sinuous, with a raised parietal edge and many fine labial teeth. The protoconch is the one strongly coloured part of the shell, and is generally reddish-brown at the apex with a moderate mid-whorl carina. It has 2.75 to 3 whorls.
This species was collected only at Station 5, in sediments at 3 m depth.