Pseudodaphnella spyridula

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

Pseudodaphnella spyridula
Original image of a shell of Pseudodaphnella spyridula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pseudodaphnella
Species:
P. spyridula
Binomial name
Pseudodaphnella spyridula
(Melvill & Standen, 1896)
Synonyms[1]

Clathurella spyridula Melvill & Standen, 1896 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1 mm.

The very minute shell is narrow, white, latticed, and cancellate, the junctions of these cancellated lirae being gemmuled The shell contains six whorls, two being apical. The aperture is sinuous. The siphonal canal is very short. The outer lip shows eight minute denticules. The sinus is wide and effuse. The columella is straight, and of simple character [2]

Distribution

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


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References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Li B.-Q. [Baoquan & Li X.-Z. [Xinzheng] (2014) Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History 48(17-18): 999-1025]
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