Roburnella wilsoni

Roburnella wilsoni
	Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Roburnella wilsoni from its original description by Ralph Tate (1889).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia ; Informal group Opisthobranchia ; clade Sacoglossa ; clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:	Oxynooidea
Family:	Oxynoidae
Genus:	Roburnella; Ev. Marcus, 1982
Species:	R. wilsoni
Binomial name
	Roburnella wilsoni; (Tate, 1889)
Synonyms
	Lobiger Wilsoni Tate, 1889

Last updated March 05, 2021

Roburnella wilsoni is a species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Oxynoidae.

Distribution

The type locality for this species is from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia.^[2]^[3]

Description

Roburnella wilsoni was described based on collection of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828-1895). It was originally described (under name Lobiger Wilsoni) by Australian biologist of British origin Ralph Tate in 1889.^[2]

The original text (the type description) reads as follows:^[2]

Animal with the body produced into a very narrow, pointed,
smooth tail of a green colour, shortly extended beyond the shell. Foot with two oblong-rounded and pale-green lobes, which are somewhat attenuated into a broadish stalk.
Shell thin, flexible, straw-yellow; spire rudimentary but involute. Somewhat pyriform, slightly attenuated in front, and truncated apically; aperture narrow-ovate, truncate behind. Surface finely striated. Length, 8 ; width, 5 millimetres.
Locality. — Lower end of South Channel of Port Phillip, seven
to sixteen fathoms (J. B. Wilson).

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References

↑ Marcus (1982). Journal moll. Stud. Suppl. No. 10: 15.
1 2 3 4 5 Tate R. (1889). "Description of some new species of marine Mollusca from South Australia and Victoria". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 60-66. Roburnella wilsoni is on the page 66. Plate 11, figure 12.
1 2 Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine . Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.

External links

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[1] Marcus (1982). Journal moll. Stud. Suppl. No. 10: 15.

[Tate_1889-2] 1 2 3 4 5 Tate R. (1889). "Description of some new species of marine Mollusca from South Australia and Victoria". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 60-66. Roburnella wilsoni is on the page 66. Plate 11, figure 12.

[Jensen_2007-3] 1 2 Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine . Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.

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