Guraleus fallaciosus

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Guraleus fallaciosus
File:Guraleus fallaciosa 001.jpg
Original drawing of a shell of Guraleus fallaciosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Species:
G. fallaciosus
Binomial name
Guraleus fallaciosus
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella (?) fallaciosa G. B. Sowerby III, 1896 (original combination)
  • Guraleus (Guraleus) fallaciosus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
  • Mangilia fallaciosa (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)

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

Description

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The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.25 mm.

(Original description) The dirty white, elongately turreted shell has an acuminate spire with a papillary apex . It contains 6½ convex whorls, barely angulate and densely spirally striated. The sutures are narrowly canaliculate. The aperture is fairly wide. The outer lip is thin and backwards slightly sinuate. The columella is rather straight. .It is a shell of simple character, with a rather long spire and short mouth. It is closely spirally striated, only the upper whorls showing ribs or plicae.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria.

References

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  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Guraleus fallaciosus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433930 on 2017-07-05
  2. ^ Sowerby, G.B., III. (1896) List of the Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2, 24–32, pl. 3 Error creating thumbnail: This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342
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