Biology:Guraleus savuensis
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| Original image of a shell of Guraleus savuensis | |
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. savuensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Guraleus savuensis (M.M. Schepman, 1913)
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Guraleus savuensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its width 3 mm.
(Original description) The shell is elongately fusiform, with a rather short siphonal canal. It is rather strong, yellowish-white, with traces of red-brown bands (bleached). It contains scarcely 9 whorls, of which about 3 form a convexly whorled protoconch. Of these about the upper one is smooth, the rest at first faintly, then strongly ribbed, with numerous elegant ribs and traces of a keel near the base of visible part of last nuclear whorl. The subsequent whorls are angularly convex, separated by a deep, strongly waved suture. The sculpture consists of rounded, not continuous, axial ribs, 7 in number on the body whorl, crossed by spirals, of which a faint crenulated one, just below the suture, another strong one at the periphery, making the ribs slightly tubercled, and 3 spirals below it on penultimate whorl, 16 on the body whorl and siphonal canal, moreover a few very faint spirals above the periphery and numerous growth lines. The aperture is elongately oval, with a sharp angle above and a rather wide siphonal canal below. The peristome is broken, probably with a rather shallow sinus above. The columellar margin is nearly straight, with a thin layer of enamel.[2]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Indonesia and can be found in the Savu Sea.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WoRMS (2009). Guraleus savuensis (Schepman, 1913). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432715 on 2017-07-11
- ↑ Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- "Guraleus savuensis" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/6/Shell_44056.shtml.
Wikidata ☰ Q10293016 entry
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