Pseudodaphnella rufolirata

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

Pseudodaphnella rufolirata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pseudodaphnella
Species:
P. rufolirata
Binomial name
Pseudodaphnella rufolirata
(Hervier, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella rufolirata Hervier, 1897 (original combination)
  • Kermia rufolirata (Hervier, 1897)
  • Philbertia rufolirata Hervier, 1897

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

The barely thick shell has an elongate-fusiform shape. It is white with red, fine thread-like lines. The apex is eroded, six whorls remaining. These are somewhat rounded and depressed at the suture. The numerous, slender, wavy, yellowish red longitudinal ribs are crossed in each whorl by 5 to 6 spiral lirae. The body whorl is depressed in the middle and then turning upright. The aperture is wide and oblong and white within. The wide siphonal canal is recurved. The outer lip is denticulate. The columella is upright. The sinus is subsutural, shallow and slightly open between the first and the third lirae.[2]

Distribution

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

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Pseudodaphnella rufolirata (Hervier, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596306 on 2012-12-03
  2. Hervier J. (1897 ["1896"]). Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 44: 138–151
  • MNHN, Paris: specimen
  • Kilburn, R. N. (2009). Genus Kermia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae: Raphitominae) in South African Waters, with Observations on the Identities of Related Extralimital Species. African Invertebrates. 50(2): 217–236
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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