Paraguraleus emina

Paraguraleus emina
Original image of a shell of Paraguraleus emina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Paraguraleus
Species:	P. emina
Binomial name
Paraguraleus emina (Hedley, 1905)
Synonyms [1]
Antiguraleus emina(Hedley, 1905) Guraleus kingensis var. emina(Hedley, 1905) Mangelia eminaHedley, 1905 (original combination)

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

Description

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

(Original description) The shell has a fusiform shape. It is variable in contour, colour, and development of sculpture. It contains 5½ whorls, including a two-whorled protoconch, rapidly increasing and slightly shouldered. Tne protoconch is smooth, glassy and globose. The colour of the shell is variable ; sometimes entirely drab or buff, often with the protoconch and the subsutural space darker. The example figured has a ground colour of pale cinnamon, banded or spotted with pale cream, below the suture a band of chocolate, deep within the inner lip a tinge of purple, protoconch a clear hazel-brown. The sculpture, longitudinal wave ribs sharply bent near the suture, fading away on the base, and leaving a bare space behind the aperture, wider spaced above, more crowded and irregular below. On the body whorl are fourteen, on the penultimate whorl eighteen. Both ribs and interspaces are crossed by sharp, minute, close, waved, spiral grooves. The flat-topped interspaces of these grooves, four times their width, are again cross-cut by close minute furrows into oblong beads. The aperture is narrow, three-fifths of the shell's length, fortified without by a broad but low incurving varix, which rises above the suture, enclosing a shallow sinus. A layer of callus overspreads the inner lip. The siphonal canal is short and broad. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales

References

1. WoRMS (2009). Paraguraleus emina (Hedley, 1905). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434578 on 2017-12-02
2. Hedley, C. 1905. Mollusca from One Hundred and Eleven Fathoms, East of Cape Byron, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 41–54 figs 5-22; Records of the Australian Museum v. 6 (1905–1907) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Hedley, C. 1905. Mollusca from One Hundred and Eleven Fathoms, East of Cape Byron, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 41–54 figs 5–22
• Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new marine species and two subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 25: 177–210, 1 pl.
• Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.