Austrodaphnella

Austrodaphnella
Austrodaphnella alcestis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Austrodaphnella Laseron, 1954
Type species
Austrodaphnella clathrata Laseron, 1954
Species
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Austrodaphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Austrodaphnella include:

• Austrodaphnella alcestis (Melvill, 1906) ^[2]
• Austrodaphnella clathrata Laseron, 1954 ^[3]
• Austrodaphnella yemenensis Bonfitto et al., 2001 ^[4]

Synonyms

• Austrodaphnella torresensisShuto, 1983: ^[5] synonym of Asperdaphne torresensis (Shuto, 1983)

References

1. Austrodaphnella Laseron, 1954 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 14 April 2010.
2. Austrodaphnella alcestis (Melvill, 1906) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 14 April 2010.
3. Austrodaphnella clathrata Laseron, 1954 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 14 April 2010.
4. Austrodaphnella yemenensis Bonfitto et al, 2001 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 14 April 2010.
5. Austrodaphnella torresensis Shuto, 1983 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 14 April 2010.

• Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23 [124, pl. 19,

External links

• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Bonfitto, A., Sabelli, B. & Morassi, M. (2001) Austrodaphnella yemenensis new species (Gastropoda: Turridae) from Yemen, Red Sea, with notes on A. alcestis (Melvill, 1906). The Nautilus, 115, 84–89: with description of the genus.