Daphnella omaleyi

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Daphnella omaleyi
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Original image of a shell of Daphnella omaleyi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Daphnella
Species:
D. omaleyi
Binomial name
Daphnella omaleyi
(Melvill, 1899)
Synonyms [1]

Clathurella omaleyiMelvill, 1899

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

A very delicate flesh-coloured shining shell with oblong aperture and produced siphonal canal. This attenuate-fusiform shell contains 7 whorls, including two decussated and alveolate apical whorls. They are much impressed at the sutures, longitudinally few-ribbed, there are but seven on the body whorl, and spirally obscurely lirate. The outer lip and the base of the siphonal canal are tinged with brown. The columella is upright. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

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References

  1. 1 2 Daphnella omaleyi (Melvill, 1899) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
  2. J.C. Melvill, Notes on the Mollusca of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman, mostly dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, with Descriptions of Twenty-seven Species; The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology ser. 7 vol. 4 (1899)