Paraguraleus

Paraguraleus
Shell of Paraguraleus emina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Paraguraleus
A.W.B. Powell, 1944
Type species
† Guraleus balcombensis Powell, 1944
Species

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Paraguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

This genus was originally described by A.W.B. Powell as belonging to the group of Lower Miocene to Recent Australian turrids, resembling Guraleus but with a very different protoconch.[2]

Species

Species brought into synonymy
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae
  • Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308

References

  1. ↑ Marshall, B. (2017). Paraguraleus Powell, 1944. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432529 on 2017-12-02
  2. ↑ A. W. B. POWELL, The Australian Tertiary Mollusca of the Family Turridae, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, Vol. 3, No. 1


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