Daphnella buccinulum

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Daphnella buccinulum
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Original image of a shell of Daphnella buccinulum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. buccinulum
Binomial name
Daphnella buccinulum
Melvill & Standen, 1903

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]

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Description

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

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

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