Daphnella hedya
Daphnella hedya is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell of Daphnella hedya | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Daphnella |
| Species: | D. hedya |
| Binomial name | |
| Daphnella hedya Melvill & Standen, 1903 | |
Description
The length of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 5 mm.
The fusiform shell shows chestnut markings. It contains nine whorls of which 3½ subhyaline whorls in the protoconch. The subsequent whorls are elegantly rounded. The shell has a minute, gemmuliferous decussation. The smallish aperture is oblong. The outer lip is slightly inflated and smooth on the inside. The sinus is not deep. The purple siphonal canal bends slightly backwards. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.
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References
- Daphnella hedya Melvill & Standen, 1903. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- 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
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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