Biology:Roburnella
Roburnella wilsoni is a species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Oxynoidae.
Roburnella wilsoni is the only species in the genus Roburnella.[1]
The specific name "wilsoni" is apparently in honor of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson, who collected the type specimen.
Distribution
The type locality for this species is from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia.[2][1]
Description
Roburnella wilsoni was described based on collection of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828–1895). It was originally described (under name Lobiger Wilsoni) by Australian biologist of British origin Ralph Tate in 1889.[2]
The original text (the type description) reads as follows:[2]
| “ | Animal with the body produced into a very narrow, pointed,
smooth tail of a green colour, shortly extended beyond the shell. Foot with two oblong-rounded and pale-green lobes, which are somewhat attenuated into a broadish stalk. Shell thin, flexible, straw-yellow; spire rudimentary but involute. Somewhat pyriform, slightly attenuated in front, and truncated apically; aperture narrow-ovate, truncate behind. Surface finely striated. Length, 8 ; width, 5 millimetres. Locality. — Lower end of South Channel of Port Phillip, seven to sixteen fathoms (J. B. Wilson). |
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References
External links
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