Guraleus incrusta

Guraleus incrusta
	Drawing of a shell of Guraleus incrusta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. incrusta
Binomial name
	Guraleus incrusta; (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
Synonyms
	Clathurella st. Gallae (sic.) Verco, J.C. 1909; Clathurella incrusta Tryon, 1884; Drillia incrusta Tenison-Woods, 1877; Guraleus (Guraleus) incrusta (Tenison-Woods, 1877) ; Guraleus incrustus (Tenison-Woods, 1877); Mangelia st-gallae Tenison-Woods, 1877; Pleurotoma (Drilla ?) incrusta Tenison-Woods, 1877 (original combination);

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

Description[edit]

The length of the shell attains 7 mm. It is a smaller shell than Guraleus lallemantianus (Crosse & Fischer, 1865), with two of the revolving striae more prominent (on the body whorl 8–9), slightly keel-like.^[2]

Distribution[edit]

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b WoRMS (2009). Guraleus incrusta (Tenison-Woods, 1877). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433938 on 2017-07-12
^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131–159
Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342
May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.

External links[edit]

Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells; Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1877 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 (Guraleus) incrusta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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.

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[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2009). Guraleus incrusta (Tenison-Woods, 1877). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433938 on 2017-07-12

[2] G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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