| Guraleus | |
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| Guraleus pictus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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] | |
EuguraleusCotton, 1947 | |
Guraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
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]
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.
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with valid names are included within the genus Guraleus : [3]
Drillia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Asperdaphne is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Pseudodaphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
Eucithara is a genus of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Marita is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Rissoina is a large genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the family Rissoinidae.
Etrema is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clathurellidae.
Miralda is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams, and their allies.
Syrnola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Turbonillinae of the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Antiguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Pseudorhaphitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Cythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Anacithara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.
Antiguraleus adcocki is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Guraleus mitralis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Paraguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Turrella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clathurellidae.
