Daphnella cecilliae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1] [2]
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| Original image of a shell of Daphnella cecilliae | |
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. cecilliae
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| Daphnella cecilliae Melvill & Standen, 1901
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 13 mm, its diameter 4 mm.
A most graceful white fusiform species, resembling a mitra of the genus Cancilla. It contains nine whorls of which three straw-colored in the protoconch. On the fourth and fifth whorls the longitudinal ribs are fewer and more incrassate than on the penultimate and body whorl. The same with the spiral lirae. On the body whorl these lirae are of varying thickness, the interstices are alveate. The whitish aperture is oblong. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The sinus is not deep. The columella stands upright.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Daphnella cecilliae Melvill & Standen, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1520573 on 2023-08-01
- ^ a b Melvill & Standen (1901) Mollusks from the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. v. 2, 1901