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Guraleus australis

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Guraleus australis
Apertural view of a shell of Guraleus australis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Species:
G. australis
Binomial name
Guraleus australis
(Adams & Angas, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela australis Adams & Angas, 1864 (original combination)
  • Guraleus (Mitraguraleus) australis (Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Mangilia australis Sowerby III, 1896
  • Mangelia australis Hedley, 1913
  • Mitraguraleus australis (A. Adams & G.F. Angas, 1864)

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

This species was considered a variety of Mangilia mitralis ( = Guraleus mitralis) by Pritchard and Gatliff in 1900[2]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 16 mm.

Distribution

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

References

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  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432718 on 2017-07-07
  2. ^ Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 1900, p. 173
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  • 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 Public Domain 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 (Mitraguraleus) mitralis australis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.