Typhlodaphne
Genus of gastropods
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Typhlodaphne is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
| Typhlodaphne | |
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| Typhlodaphne corpulenta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Typhlodaphne Powell, 1951 |
| Type species | |
| Bela purissima Strebel, 1908 | |
Description
The smooth protoconch is bluntly rounded and paucispiral, consisting of two whorls. The sinus is subsutural, steeply descending and then produced forward to meet the arcuately produced outer lip. The vestigial operculum may reflect an archaic condition.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Typhlodaphne include:
- Typhlodaphne bonardi Poppe & Tagaro, 2026
- Typhlodaphne corpulenta (Watson, 1881)[3]
- Typhlodaphne filostriata (Strebel, 1905)[4]
- Typhlodaphne paratenoceras (Powell, 1951)
- Typhlodaphne payeni (Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885)[5]
- Typhlodaphne platamodes (Watson, 1881)[6]
- Typhlodaphne purissima (Strebel, 1908)[7]
- Typhlodaphne strebeli Powell, 1951[8]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Typhlodaphne innocentia Dell, 1990: synonym of Pleurotomella innocentia (Dell, 1990) (original combination)
- Typhlodaphne nipri Numanami, 1996: synonym of Pleurotomella nipri (Numanami, 1996) (original combination)
- Typhlodaphne translucida (Watson, 1881):[9] synonym of Xanthodaphne translucida (Watson, 1881)
