Genus Daphnella Hinds, 1844

Type species Pleurotoma lymneiformis Kiener, 1840

Remarks

Laseron (1954) proposed Paradaphne Laseron, 1954 as a new genus differing from Daphnella Hinds, 1844 only geographically, without morphological differences. That is to say, Laseron (1954) classified the Indo-Pacific species as Paradaphne while maintaining the Atlantic species in Daphnella . Powell (1966) considered Paradaphne as a synonym of Daphnella and indicated the range of recent species of this genus as from the Philippines, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Hawaii to the Caribbean and tropical West America. The present record expands the range of the genus to the China Seas.