Guildfordia

Guildfordia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Guildfordia
Two views of a shell of Guildfordia yoka
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Guildfordia
Gray, 1850
Type species
Trochus triumphans Philippi, 1841

Description

The imperforate shell is wheel-shaped. It is low-conic and granulose above, convex below. The periphery is armed with long slender radiating spines, which are concealed at the sutures. The operculum is flat, with a subobsolete arcuate rib outside. The central tooth of the radula has no cusps.[2]

Distribution

This marine genus occurs off the Philippines, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Indian Ocean, Oceania, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

Species

Species within the genus Guildfordia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Guildfordia delicata Habe & Okutani, 1983: synonym of Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888
  • Guildfordia gloriosa Kuroda & Habe in Kira, 1961: synonym of Bolma henica (Watson, 1885)
  • Guildfordia heliophorus Gray: synonym of Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784)
  • Guildfordia kurzi Petuch, 1980 - Kurz's Star Turban: synonym of Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979
  • Guildfordia tagaroae Alf & Kreipl, 2006:[8] synonym of Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979
Taxon inquirendum
  • Guildfordia monilifera (Hedley & Willey, 1896) (possibly a synonym of Guildfordia aculeata)

References
  1. Guildfordia Gray, 1850. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  3. Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  4. Guildfordia radians Dekker, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  5. Guildfordia superba Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2005. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  6. Guildfordia triumphans (Philippi, 1841). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  7. Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  8. Guildfordia tagaroae Alf & Kreipl, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  • Gray, 1850 in M.E. Gray Figures of molluscous animals selected from various authors, 4: 87
  • Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592


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