Pseudodaphnella nebulosa

Pseudodaphnella nebulosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Pseudodaphnella
Species:	P. nebulosa
Binomial name
	Pseudodaphnella nebulosa; (Pease, 1860)

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

Description edit

(Original description) The shell is fusiformly oblong, finely ribbed longitudinally, striated transversely, forming regular granules. The sutures are slightly angulated and smooth. The aperture is oval. The outer lip is slightly incurved and serrated on its edges, striated internally. The siphonal canal is slightly produced and recurved. The colour of the shell is white, marked with irregular, interrupted, longitudinal brown lines.^[2]

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs off Hawaii.

References edit

^ ^a ^b Pseudodaphnella nebulosa (Pease, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
^ Pease, William Harper. "Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Vol. 28. 1860

External links edit

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
Gastropods.com: Pseudodaphnella nebulosa

[WoRMS-1] Pseudodaphnella nebulosa (Pease, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

[2] Pease, William Harper. "Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Vol. 28. 1860

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