Guraleus australis
| Guraleus australis | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Guraleus australis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Guraleus |
| Species: | G. australis
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| Binomial name | |
| Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864)
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Guraleus australis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
This species was considered a variety of Mangilia mitralis ( = Guraleus mitralis) by Pritchard and Gatliff in 1900[2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 16 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
References
[edit]- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432718 on 2017-07-07
- ^ Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 1900, p. 173
- 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
- Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - 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.
External links
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- 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 (Mitraguraleus) mitralis australis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.