Guraleus alucinans

Guraleus alucinans
Shell of Guraleus alucinans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Guraleus
Species: G. alucinans
Binomial name
Guraleus alucinans
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella browniana Tate & May, 1901
  • Daphnella (Mangilia) alucinans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896)
  • Guraleus (Guraleus) pictus vincentinus (Crosse & Fischer, 1865)
  • Mangilia alucinans G. B. Sowerby III, 1896 (original combination)
  • Mangilia lineata Angas, 1865
  • Pleurotoma (Mangelia) vincentina Crosse & Fischer, 1865

Guraleus alucinans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) This is one of the most wide-spread and variable of Australian marine temperate gastropods. . The short fusiform shell contains 7-8 obtusely angulated whorls. This species may be distinguished by its thick, rounded, straight ribs. The spiral grooves are more or less distinct. Some specimens are nearly white ; in others numerous sienna brown spiral lines, which extends from the angle down to the suture, cross the ribs , interrupted by the interstices, as in Guraleus pictus. There is generally a brown line just above the angle.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off South Australia and New South Wales.

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2009). Guraleus alucinans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433922 on 2017-07-05
  2. ↑ Sowerby, G.B., III. (1896) List of the Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2, 24–32, pl. 3 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. 1865. Description d'espèces nouvelles d'Australie provenant dela collection de M. Geo French Angas. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 422-429, pl. 11, figs 1-7
  • Angas, G.F. 1865. On the marine molluscan fauna of the Province of South Australia, with a list of all the species known up to the present time, together with remarks on their habitats and distribution, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 155-"180" (=190)
  • Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471

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