Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Apertural view of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorhaphitoma |
| Species: | P. darnleyi
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| Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi (Brazier, 1876)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 12 mm.
(Original description) The slender pyramidal shell is acuminated. It is six-sided, horny brown, longitudinally ribbed, crossed with raised striae, somewhat rugose and with smooth interstices. The shell contains 7-8 flattened whorls. The suture is opaque. The sculpture is much plainer on the body whorl. The inner lip shows a thin deposit of callus. The outer lip is thin, edged with black. The sinus is wide, cut deep down. The siphonal canal is short.[2]
The slender, six-sided shell has a pyramidal shape. It is longitudinally ribbed and crossed with raised striae, somewhat rugose, interstices smooth. It contains 7 to 8 flattened whorls. The outer lip is slightly varicose. The sinus is wide and deep. The color is yellowish brown, the lip sometimes black-edged.[3]
This species is remarkable by the absence of fine grained spirals and is by this an aberrant members of this genus.[4]
Distribution
editThis marine genus is endemic to Australia and occurs in the Gulf of Carpentaria and off Queensland, Australia
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi (Brazier, 1876). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434777 on 2018-01-02
- ^ Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
