Guraleus flavescens

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Guraleus flavescens
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Shell of Guraleus flavescens
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Species:
G. flavescens
Binomial name
Guraleus flavescens
(Angas, 1877)
Synonyms [1]
  • Guraleus (Guraleus) flavescens(Angas, 1877)
  • Mangelia flavescensAngas, 1877 (original combination)
  • Mangilia flavescensAngas, 1877

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

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Description

(Original description) The shell is ovately fusiformly turreted, solid, pale buff, sometimes tinged with yellowish orange on the ribs. It contains 6½ whorls, conspicuously angled below the sutures and longitudinally distantly stoutly ribbed. The ribs are sharply nodulous at the angle, the lower half of the body whorl finely transversely ridged. The aperture is elongately ovate. The outer lip is flattened inwards. The posterior sinus is moderate, slanting upwards. [2]

Distribution

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

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2009). Guraleus flavescens (Angas, 1877). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433933 on 2017-07-10
  2. 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 ) PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .