Guraleus kamakuranus

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

Guraleus kamakuranus
Original image of a shell of Guraleus kamakuranus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Species:
G. kamakuranus
Binomial name
Guraleus kamakuranus
(Pilsbry, 1904)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia kamakurana Pilsbry, 1904 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

(Original description) The shell is very small. Its color is white with a brown spot in the middle of the lip varix. The spire is terraced, the lower half conic. The sculpture consists of slightly curved obliquely longitudinal ribs, 11 on the body whorl, the last one, behind the lip, much larger. These are crossed by spaced spiral threads, with, smaller threads between them, the intervals still more finely striate spirally. The shell contains 5 whorls (the embryonic ones broken off), strongly angular near the middle, flattened and sloping above the angle, contracting below it. The body whorl is similarly angular, convex below the angle, contracted near the base. The aperture is oblong. The columellar margin is concave above the middle. The outer lip is thick, with a moderately deep rounded sinus above; smooth within.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan and Korea.

References
  1. Marshall, B. (2017). Guraleus kamakuranus (Pilsbry, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433939 on 2017-07-12
  2. Pilsbry, Henry A., Sc.D. New Japanese Marine Mollusca: Gastropoda (Plates I–VI); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 56 (1904) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Guraleus kamakuranus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.