Daphnella cecilliae
Species of gastropod
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Daphnella cecilliae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1] [2]
| Daphnella cecilliae | |
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| Original image of a shell of Daphnella cecilliae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Daphnella |
| Species: | D. cecilliae |
| Binomial name | |
| Daphnella cecilliae Melvill & Standen, 1901 | |
Description
The 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
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.