Guraleus verhoeffeni

Guraleus verhoeffeni
	Shell of Guraleus verhoeffeni (holotype)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. verhoeffeni
Binomial name
	Guraleus verhoeffeni; (von Martens, 1904)
Synonyms
	Mangilia (Cithara) verhoeffeni E. von Martens, 1904 superseded combination; Mangilia verhoeffeni Martens, 1904 (original combination);

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-oblong, vertically ribbed, otherwise smooth, thin, and whitish. It is painted with 4 rather broad, pale brown bands. The spire is conically elongated. It has 8 whorls: the first is smooth and brownish, the succeeding 2-6 are very convex, and the penultimate and ultimate are less convex. The penultimate whorl has 12 vertical ribs, and the ultimate has 13; the latter is gradually attenuated at the base, with a rather deep suture. The aperture equals the spire, is narrowly elliptical, with its outer margin arcuately sinuous at the suture above, then slightly arcuately thickened, broadly varicose, and edentate. The siphonal canal is well-defined, quite short, widely open, and scarcely resupinate. The columellar margin is smooth, quite concave above, appressed, and as if abraded. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Sumatra, Indonesia.

References

^ ^a ^b WoRMS (2009). Guraleus verhoeffeni (Martens, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433944 on 2017-07-13
^ von Martens (1904) Die beschalten Gastropoden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898–1899.. In. A. Systematisch-geographischer Theil., vol. 7 Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899, 1–146 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.

[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2009). Guraleus verhoeffeni (Martens, 1904). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433944 on 2017-07-13

[2] von Martens (1904) Die beschalten Gastropoden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898–1899.. In. A. Systematisch-geographischer Theil., vol. 7 Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899, 1–146 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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