Daphnella thiasotes

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

Daphnella thiasotes
Original image of a shell of Daphnella thiasotes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. thiasotes
Binomial name
Daphnella thiasotes
Melvill & Standen, 1896
Synonyms

Mangilia thiasotes (Melvill & Standen, 1896)

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 4.25 mm.

(Original description) The solid, fusiform shell contains six whorls. The protoconch is pitchy black, the remainder are with bright ochreous tinting. In the younger specimens transverse shining white rows of large gemmae cross the whorls just above the sutures, and in the middle of the body whorl, below, there are ochre bands. In the body whorl this is followed by two smaller rows of gemmae, and then by a pitch black line reaching from the upper portion of the columellar margin, across the back of the shell, to the base of the outer lip. The more mature shell is conspicuous for the very swollen row of white peripheral nodules, banded below with fulvous colour. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The siphonal canal is short. The columellar margin simple. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands and the Mactan Island, Philippines

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References
  1. Daphnella thiasotes (Melvill & Standen, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1896) Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part II. Journal of Conchology 8: 273-315 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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