Diaugasma epicharta

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Diaugasma epicharta
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Original image of a shell of Diaugasma epicharta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Diaugasma
Species:
D. epicharta
Binomial name
Diaugasma epicharta
(Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Synonyms [1]

Daphnella epichartaMelvill & Standen, 1903 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, and its diameter 1.75 mm.

The small oblong-fusiform shell is semi-pellucid. It is unicolorous white, or flecked with pale straw-colored spots. It contains six whorls of which three in the protoconch. These are closely and very finely cancellate. The subsequent whorls are slightly ventricose and almost smooth. The very delicate and irregular spiral striation across the whorls is almost evanescent. The body whorl is smooth centrally. The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is nearly straight. It is incrassate, white and shining. The columella stands upright. The siphonal canal is short. The sinus is hardly expressed. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman

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