Daphnella buccinulum
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| Daphnella buccinulum | |
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| File:Daphnella buccinulum 001.jpg | |
| Original image of a shell of Daphnella buccinulum | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Daphnella |
| Species: | D. buccinulum
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| Binomial name | |
| Daphnella buccinulum Melvill & Standen, 1903
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Daphnella buccinulum, common names the botanic turrid and Botany Bay turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3.75 mm.
An inflated Buccinoid species, very delicate and beautifully cancellate throughout. It contains seven whorls of which three in the protoconch. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is indistinct.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Gastropods.com: Dapgnella buccinulum
- ^ 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 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
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