See text Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

[1] Not to be confused with Daphnella Baird, 1850, a synonym of Diaphanosoma Fischer, 1850 belonging to the Sididae, a family of ctenopods.

This genus is well characterised by a small, thin shell, elongate-ovate form, a sharp outer lip, the position of the sinus on the line of the advancing suture, and by the reduction of the siphonal canal.

The early whorls of the teleoconch show a nodulous sculpture produced by strong axial riblets and strong spiral lirations.

These axial riblets disappear on the body whorl, while the spiral lirations remain.