Daphnella axis

Daphnella axis, common name the axle pleuratoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Daphnella axis
Original image of a shell of Daphnella axis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Daphnella
Species:	D. axis
Binomial name
Daphnella axis (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
Clathurella axis (Reeve, 1846) Daphnella subula Brazier, J. 1876 (not Pleurotoma subula Reeve, 1845) Daphnella (Hemidaphne) axis (Reeve, 1846) Pleurotoma axis Reeve, 1846

Description

(Original description) The shell is straightly acuminate and contracted at the upper part. The whorls show two keels round the upper part. They are transversely faintly ridged beneath. The aperture is oblong. The sinus, which is formed between the two keels, is unusually deep. The color of the shell is whitish, somewhat indistinctly stained with orange-brown.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, in the Gulf of Oman and in the Gulf of Carpentaria - Queensland, Australia