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.[1]
| Daphnella buccinulum | |
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| Original image of a shell of Daphnella buccinulum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Daphnella |
| Species: | D. buccinulum
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| Binomial name | |
| Daphnella buccinulum Melvill & Standen, 1903
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Description
editThe 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.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
edit- ^ Gastropods.com: Dapgnella buccinulum
- ^ 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
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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.