Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi

Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi
Original image of a shell of Pseudodaphnella hadfieldi
Scientific classification
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]
Clathurella ephela Hervier, 1897 Lienardia hadfieldi (Melvill & Standen, 1895) Pleurotoma (Drillia) hadfieldi Melvill & Standen, 1895 (original combination) Pseudodaphnella ephela Hervier, R.P.J., 1897

Description

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]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Palau^[3]