Daphnella buccinulum
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Daphnella buccinulum, common names the botanic turrid and Botany Bay turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_41492.shtml Gastropods.com: Dapgnella buccinulum]
Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3.75 mm.
An inflated Buccinoid species, very delicate and beautifully cancellate throughout. It contains seven whorls of which three in the protoconch. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is indistinct.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94944#page/311/mode/1up Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 7, 12: 289-324] {{PD-notice}}
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
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External links
- {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 }}
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