Paraguraleus

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

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

See text

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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