Guraleus

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

Guraleus
Guraleus pictus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Hedley, 1918
Type species
Mangelia picta
Adams & Angas, 1864
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Euguraleus Cotton, 1947

Description

The thin shell is fusiform or subcylindrical. The colour ranges from uniform buff, with or without chocolate spiral lines or bands, to entire chocolate. The protoconch consists of two or three smooth helicoid whorls. Fasciole don't interrupt the sculpture, and are scarcely indicated by the curvature of growth lines.

Sculpture :—The radials vary from bold spaced ribs projecting at the shoulder to fine close riblets. The entire shell, except the protoconch, is overrun with fine, close, beaded or unbeaded threads. The aperture measures about half the length of the shell, with or without armature. The outer lip is slightly inflected. The sinus is subsutural, deeply rounded. The siphonal canal is short and open.[2]

Distribution

This genus of marine species occurs off Sumatra (Indonesia) and Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia). One species, Guraleus amplexus, occurs off South Africa, another, Guraleus kamakuranus off Japan and Korea.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with valid names are included within the genus Guraleus :[3]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Guraleus bellus (Adams, A. & G.F. Angas, 1864): synonym of Antiguraleus adcocki (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896)
  • Guraleus comptus (Adams & Angas, 1864): synonym of Marita compta (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Guraleus costatus Hedley, 1922: synonym of Antiguraleus costatus (Hedley, 1922)
  • † Guraleus cuspidatus Chapple, 1934: synonym of † Pleurotomella cuspidata (Chapple, 1934)
  • Guraleus inornatus (Sowerby, 1897): synonym of Marita inornata (Sowerby III, 1896)
  • Guraleus insculptus (Adams & Angas, 1864): synonym of Marita insculpta (Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Guraleus letouneuxianus Crosse and Fischer, 1865: synonym of Turrella letourneuxiana (Crosse and Fischer, 1865)
  • Guraleus morologus Hedley, 1922: synonym of Turrella morologus (Hedley, 1922)
  • Guraleus nitidus Hedley, 1922 : synonym of Marita nitidus (Hedley, 1922)
  • Guraleus permutatus Hedley, 1922 : synonym of Antiguraleus permutatus (Hedley, 1922)
  • Guraleus pulchripicta (Melvill & Standen, 1901): synonym of Lienardia pulchripictus (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
  • Guraleus schoutenensis May, 1901: synonym of Marita schoutenensis (May, 1911)
  • Guraleus vulgata (J.Thiele, 1925);: synonym of Mangelia vulgata J. Thiele, 1925 (taxon inquirendum)

References
  1. Guraleus . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
  2. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
  3. WoRMS : Guraleus
  4. OBIS : Guraleus (Guraleus) fallaciosus
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