Diaugasma epicharta

Diaugasma epicharta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Diaugasma epicharta
Original image of a shell of Diaugasma epicharta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Diaugasma
Species:
D. epicharta
Binomial name
Diaugasma epicharta
(Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Synonyms[1]

Daphnella epicharta Melvill & Standen, 1903 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.75 mm.

The small oblong-fusiform shell is semi-pellucid. It is unicolorous white, or flecked with pale straw-colored spots. It contains six whorls of which three in the protoconch. These are closely and very finely cancellate. The subsequent whorls are slightly ventricose and almost smooth. The very delicate and irregular spiral striation across the whorls is almost evanescent. The body whorl is smooth centrally. The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is nearly straight. It is incrassate, white and shining. The columella stands upright. The siphonal canal is short. The sinus is hardly expressed.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Diaugasma epicharta (Melvill & Standen, 1903). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762160 on 2019-03-09
  2. Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 7, 12: 289-324
  • J.C. Melvill (1917), A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1914; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London vol. 12, 1917 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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