Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi | |
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Original image of a shell of Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Pseudodaphnella |
Species: | P. hadfieldi
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Binomial name | |
Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
The white fusiform shell is wrinkled. It contains seven whorls with a few longitudinal ribs. These ribs are pronounced and ventricose. They are alternately squarrosely ochre-colored. The aperture is subrotund. The outer lip is incrassate and denticulate within. The columella is simple and slightly blistered on the outside.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Palau[3]
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi (Melvill & Standen, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596304 on 2019-11-18
- ^ Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1895) Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Journal of Conchology 8: 84–132, 3 pls
- ^ ANSP: Pseudodaphnella ephela
External links
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- Kilburn, R. N. (2009). Genus Kermia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae: Raphitominae) in South African Waters, with Observations on the Identities of Related Extralimital Species. African Invertebrates. 50(2): 217-236.
- edosov A. E. & Puillandre N. (2012) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Kermia–Pseudodaphnella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Raphitomidae) genus complex: a remarkable radiation via diversification of larval development. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(4): 447-477
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- MNHN, Paris: syntype