Daphnella intercedens

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

Daphnella intercedens
Original image of a shell (and protoconch) of Daphnella intercedens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. intercedens
Binomial name
Daphnella intercedens
(Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms[1]

Mangelia intercedens J.C. Melvill, 1923

Description

The length of the shell is 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

(Original description) The small, delicate, thin shell has a fusiform shape. it is white with a partial pale yellow suffusion. It contains 7 whorls, of which three are in the protoconch. These are globose, semidiaphanous, white, shining, the third being microscopically longitudinally striate. The subsequent whorls, all impressed suturally, are closely longitudinally ribbed. These ribs are close, shining, and smooth, obliquely flexuose, with the interstices finely spirally striate. The aperture is ovate-oblong. The outer lip is thin, but hardly adult. The columellar margin is oblique. The siphonal canal is abbreviate.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Cuba.

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References
  1. Daphnella intercedens (Melvill, 1923). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. J.C. Melvill, Descriptions of twenty-one Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr. E.R. Sykes; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14–15 (1920-1923)
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