Daphnella euphrosyne

Daphnella euphrosyne is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Daphnella euphrosyne
Original image of a shell of Daphnella euphrosyne
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. euphrosyne
Binomial name
Daphnella euphrosyne
Melvill & Standen, 1903

Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

The white, attenuated, graceful shell contains ten whorls of which four in the protoconch. The spiral liration is distinct and regular (23 in the body whorl). The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin. The wide siphonal canal is somewhat more prolonged. The peristome is not very effuse. There is no columellar plication.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

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References
  1. Daphnella euphrosyne Melvill & Standen, 1903. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. 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.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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