Guraleus incrusta

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

Guraleus incrusta
Drawing of a shell of Guraleus incrusta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. incrusta
Binomial name
Guraleus incrusta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
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)

Description

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

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

References

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.

• 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

• 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.