''Pseudodaphnella epicharis'' 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 Raphitomidae
Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 39 ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2017). Pseudodaphnella epicharis (Sturany, 1903). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955894 on 2017-08-31] It was first identified by Sturany in 1903 as ''Mangilia epicaris.''
Description
The length of the shell is 4.6 mm, and the diameter is 2 mm.
Distribution
''Pseudodaphnelle epicharis'' is documented as being distributed in the
Red Sea.
References
* Sturany, R. "Gastropoden des Rothen Meeres. Expeditionen SM Schiff" Pola" iiKias Rothe Meer 1895/96 und 1897/98." ZooL Ergeb. Wien (1903): 1-75
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
Dekker, H.; Orlin, Z. (2000). Check-list of Red Sea Mollusca. Spirula. 47 (supplement): 1–46Paolo G. Albano, Piet A.J. Bakker, Ronald Janssen, Anita Eschner, An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany's type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods; Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 45-94 (18 Jan 2017)
epicharis
Gastropods described in 1903
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