Daphnella euphrosyne
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|authority = Melvill & Standen, 1903
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Daphnella euphrosyne is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.{{WRMS species|433521|Daphnella euphrosyne Melvill & Standen, 1903||5 April 2010}}
Description
The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 4 mm.
The white, attenuated, graceful shell contains ten whorls, of which four in the protoconch. The spiral liration is distinct and regular (23 in the body whorl). The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thin. The wide siphonal canal is more prolonged. The peristome could be more effuse. There is no columellar plication. [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.
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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 | format = PDF | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295}}
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