Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi
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| Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi | |
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| Original image of a shell of Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Pseudodaphnella |
| Species: | P. hadfieldi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi (Melvill & Standen, 1895) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
The white fusiform shell is wrinkled. It contains seven whorls with a few longitudinal ribs. These ribs are pronounced and ventricose. They are alternately squarrosely ochre-colored. The aperture is subrotund. The outer lip is incrassate and denticulate within. The columella is simple and slightly blistered on the outside.[2]
