Daphnella bartschi

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

Daphnella bartschi
Shell of Daphnella bartschi (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. bartschi
Binomial name
Daphnella bartschi
Dall, 1919

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 5 mm.

(Original description) The small, slender shell is yellowish white with brown flames and flecks. The whorls are moderately convex. The suture is distinct. The shell contains six whorls, with a very minute brown protoconch of two whorls. The whole surface is delicately reticulated with subequal axial and spiral threads, the spirals cut by the axial interspaces into minute nodules, the interstices squarish. The surface resulting is grating to the touch. The aperture is narrow. The siphonal canal is hardly differentiated and not recurved. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Baja California, Mexico, and the Galapagos Islands

References
  1. Daphnella bartschi Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452
  • Lyons, William G. "New Turridae (Gastropoda: Toxoglossa) from south Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico." The Nautilus 86.1 (1972): 3-7.
  • Tucker, J. K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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