Guraleus alucinans

Guraleus alucinans
	Shell of Guraleus alucinans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. alucinans
Binomial name
	Guraleus alucinans; (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
	Clathurella browniana Tate & May, 1901; Daphnella (Mangilia) alucinans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896); Guraleus (Guraleus) pictus vincentinus (Crosse & Fischer, 1865); Mangilia alucinans G. B. Sowerby III, 1896 (original combination); Mangilia lineata Angas, 1865; Pleurotoma (Mangelia) vincentina Crosse & Fischer, 1865;

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) This is one of the most widespread and variable of Australian marine temperate gastropods. . The short fusiform shell contains 7–8 obtusely angulated whorls. This species may be distinguished by its thick, rounded, straight ribs. The spiral grooves are more or less distinct. Some specimens are nearly white ; in others numerous sienna brown spiral lines, which extends from the angle down to the suture, cross the ribs, interrupted by the interstices, as in Guraleus pictus. There is generally a brown line just above the angle.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off South Australia and New South Wales.

References

WoRMS (2009). Guraleus alucinans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433922 on 2017-07-05
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.

Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. 1865. Description d'espèces nouvelles d'Australie provenant dela collection de M. Geo French Angas. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 422–429, pl. 11, figs 1–7
Angas, G.F. 1865. On the marine molluscan fauna of the Province of South Australia, with a list of all the species known up to the present time, together with remarks on their habitats and distribution, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 155-"180" (=190)
Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344–471

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
"Guraleus alucinans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2009). Guraleus alucinans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433922 on 2017-07-05

[2] 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.