Guraleus jacksonensis

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

Guraleus jacksonensis
Original image of a shell of Guraleus jacksonensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Species:
G. jacksonensis
Binomial name
Guraleus jacksonensis
(Angas, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella jacksonensis (Angas, 1877)
  • Euguraleus jacksonensis (Angus, 1877)
  • Guraleus (Euguraleus) jacksonensis (Angas, 1877)
  • Mangelia jacksonensis Angas, 1877 (original combination)
  • Mangilia jacksonensis Angas, 1877

This species is considered a synonym of Guraleus (Euguraleus) tasmanicus (Tenison-Woods, 1876) by the Australian Faunal Directory[2] and by Ch. Hedley in 1922.[3]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

(Original description) The shell is elongately fusiformly turreted, solid, pale fulvous yellow. It contains 7 whorls, angulated and flattened at the upper part. The shell is longitudinally somewhat prominently ribbed, the ribs slightly nodulous at the angle of the whorl, the interstices crossed with narrow grooved lines in pairs, which are interrupted by the longitudinal ribs. The aperture is elongately ovate. The thin outer lip is simple. The base of the columella is sometimes tinged with brown. The posterior sinus is very shallow.[4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off New South Wales.

References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Guraleus jacksonensis (Angas, 1877). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432714 on 2017-07-10
  2. Australian Faunal Directory: Guraleus (Euguraleus) tasmanicus (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
  3. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. Angas, G.F. 1877. Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 34-40, pl. 5 ( January–April ) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Brazier, J. 1889. Notes and critical remarks on a donation of shells sent to the Museum of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal of Conchology 6: 66-84
  • Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • "Guraleus (Euguraleus) jacksonensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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