Guraleus pictus

Guraleus pictus
Shell of Guraleus pictus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. pictus
Binomial name
Guraleus pictus (Adams & Angas, 1864)
Synonyms [1]
Mangelia meredithiaeTenison-Woods, 1876 Mangelia pictaAdams & Angas, 1864 (original combination) Pleurotoma (Mangelia) vincentinaCrosse & P. Fischer, 1865 junior subjective synonym

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

Description

(Original description inLatin) The shell is turreted-fusiform, with a produced spire that is longer than the aperture. It is pale tawny, adorned with a broad, brownish-purplish band in the middle of the whorls, and equipped with an opaque white transverse posterior zone. The whorls are somewhat convex, longitudinally plicate, with distant, flexuous, rib-like folds, and closely grooved transversely. The aperture is elongated; the lip is simple; and the outer lip is varicose externally, smooth internally, with an acute and broadly sinuous posterior margin. ^[2]

The Guraleus pictus has a typical shell length of 17mm, variable in size, shape and extent of brown banding. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Southern Australia and Eastern Australia and can be found intertidally and subtidally amongst rocks and seaweed off the coasts of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania.

References

1. Marshall, B. (2015). Guraleus pictus (A. Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433942 on 2017-07-08
2. Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418–428, pl. xxxvii This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Grove, Simon; de Little, Rob (2018). "Guraleus pictus | Molluscs of Tasmania". Molluscs of Tasmania . Retrieved 25 June 2022.

• Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159
• 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
• 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 .
• May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The Turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6

External links

• 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• "Guraleus (Guraleus) pictus pictus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.