Daphnella thygatrica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Daphnella thygatrica | |
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| Original image of a shell of Daphnella thygatrica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Daphnella |
| Species: | D. thygatrica
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| Binomial name | |
| Daphnella thygatrica Melvill & Standen, 1903
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
The small, fusiform shell is twisted. It is straw-coloured with faint rufous longitudinal tints. It contains seven whorls, of which three decussate whorls in the protoconch. The body whorl is doubly keeled. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is inconspicuous. The columellar margin is incrassate. The wide siphonal canal is only slightly produced.[2][3]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman
References edit
- ^ gastropods.com: Daphnella thygatrica
- ^ Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 7, 12: 289-324
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ J.C. Melvill (1917), A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1914; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London vol. 12, 1917 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.