Neoguraleus sinclairi

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Neoguraleus sinclairi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Neoguraleus
Species:
N. sinclairi
Binomial name
Neoguraleus sinclairi
(Gillies, 1882)
Synonyms [1]
  • Defrancia luteofasciataHutton, 1881
  • Drillia sinclairiGillies, 1882 (original combination)
  • Neoguraleus sinclairi(E. A. Smith, 1884) (synonym and homonym)
  • Neoguraleus whangaroaensisPowell, A.W.B., 1942
  • Pleurotoma (Mangilia) sinclairiiE. A. Smith, 1884
  • Pleurotoma sinclairiiE. A. Smith, 1884 (synonym and homonym)

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

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Not to be confused with Neoguraleus sinclairi(E.A.Smith, 1884) (synonym of Neoguraleus finlayi Powell, 1942).

Authority

Tucker (2004) states that Drillia sinclairiGillies, 1882is a nude name, but it is not; Gillies (1882) renamed a misidentification by Hutton (1880), referring to p. 45 where Hutton gave a description of "Defranchia luteo-fasciata". This description is not copied from Reeve's description of "Pleurotoma luteo-fasciata". [1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 11 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin of Pleurotoma (Mangilia) sinclairii) The ovate shell is somewhat turreted. It is pale yellowish, and is adorned with two red bands at the sutures between the ribs; it has 8 convex whorls, which are slightly flattened superiorly, and are adorned with 16 thin ribs (which are nearly continuous on the base of the body whorl), and is transversely rather thickly spirally ridged , with unequal ridges continuous above and between the ribs; the aperture is small, banded with brown internally and its length is equal to 5/11 of the total length; the outer lip is thin, slightly sinuous a little below the suture; the tail is brown; the columella is covered with a very thin callus; the siphonal canal is very short and oblique. [2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs throughout New Zealand and at the Steward Island and the Chatham Islands; fossils have been found in Pliocene strata.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Neoguraleus sinclairi (Gillies, 1882). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434474 on 2017-10-19
  2. ↑ Smith, E.A. (1884). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5 (14): 320. Retrieved 22 November 2025.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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