''Diptychophlia occata'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...

.Bouchet, P. (2015). Diptychophlia occata (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433569 on 2016-03-04

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm. The shell is light yellowish brown. The fusiform shell is slender and attenuated. The sculpture is angular from the ribs being continuous. The seven

whorl A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs). Whorls in nature File:Photograph and axial plane floral ...

s are transversely ploughed. The suture is simple. The aperture is contracted, linear and a little oblique. The

siphonal canal The siphonal canal is an anatomical feature of the shells of certain groups of sea snails within the clade Neogastropoda. Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is ...

is of medium length.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Pacific Panama.

References

* Hinds, 1844. ''The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1836-42''. Volume II. Mollusca.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diptychophlia Occata occata Gastropods described in 1843