Daphnella pessulata

Daphnella pessulata, common name the barred pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Daphnella pessulata
Original image of a shell of Daphnella pessulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. pessulata
Binomial name
Daphnella pessulata
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma pessulata Reeve, 1843

J.K.Tucker considers this species as a synonym of Gingicithara pessulata, family Mangeliidae.

Description

(Original description) The yellow or ash-coloured shell is rather sharply fusiform. The whorls are slightly convex, longitudinally ribbed. The ribs are rather distant, crossed with somewhat obsolete transverse striae. Although the ribs in this species are comparatively distant from each other, they vary considerably in this respect in different individuals: the more elongated the shell, the closer the ribs. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is small. The siphonal canal is rather short, a little recurved.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

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References
  1. Daphnella pessulata (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
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