Daphnella cancellata

Daphnella cancellata
Drawing of the shell of Daphnella cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Daphnella
Species:	D. cancellata
Binomial name
Daphnella cancellata Hutton, 1878
Synonyms [1]
Daphnella (Daphnella) cancellataHutton, 1878

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 8 mm.

(Original description) The thin, finely cancellated shell has a fusiform shape. The spire is acute. The aperture is oblong, slightly channelled in front. It shows a slight posterior sinus. Its colour is yellowish-white, slightly blotched with brown. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Northland to Bay of Plenty and East Cape

References

1. Daphnella cancellata Hutton, 1878 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Hutton F.W. (1880) - Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca: A Systematic and Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine and Land Shells, and of the Soft Mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Hutton; Jour. de Conch., 1878 p. 18.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca, pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone