Pseudodaphnella ramsayi explained

Pseudodaphnella ramsayi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The white shell is oblong ovate, somewhat acuminated, longitudinally closely ribbed, corded with fine transverse ridges. The interstices are deep. The shell contains six flat whorls, encircled at the suture with black, showing plainer on the back of the body whorl. The brown apex is acute. The outer lip is thickened. The sinus is narrow. The siphonal canal is a little recurved.^[1]

A peculiar wide basal furrow groups Pseudodaphnella ramsayi with such species as Philbertia alba Deshayes, 1863, Paramontana blanfordi (Nevill & Nevill, 1875), Kermia cavernosa (Reeve, 1843) Pseudodaphnella leuckarti (Dunker, 1860), Paramontana mayana Hedley, 1922 Pseudodaphnella oligoina Hedley, 1922, Kermia spelaeodea Hervier, 1897, Pseudodaphnella stipata Hedley, 1922 and Pseudodaphnella tincta Reeve, 1846.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Guinea and circum Australia.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
• Kilburn, R. N. (2009). Genus Kermia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae: Raphitominae) in South African Waters, with Observations on the Identities of Related Extralimital Species. African Invertebrates. 50(2): 217–236

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3340119#page/195/mode/1up Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
2. https://archive.org/details/revisionofaustri00hedl Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42-56