Roburnella wilsoni

Roburnella wilsoni
Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Roburnella wilsoni from its original description by Ralph Tate (1889).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

Informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Oxynoacea

Superfamily: Oxynooidea
Family: Oxynoidae
Genus: Roburnella
Marcus, 1982[1]
Species: R. wilsoni
Binomial name
Roburnella wilsoni
(Tate, 1889)[2]
Synonyms

Lobiger Wilsoni Tate, 1889[2]

Roburnella wilsoni is a species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

Roburnella wilsoni is the only species in the genus Roburnella.[3]

The specific name "wilsoni" is apparently in honor of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828-1895), who collected the type specimen.

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Distribution

The type locality for this species is from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia.[2][3]

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).

References

  1. ^ Marcus (1982). Journal moll. Stud. Suppl. No. 10: 15.
  2. ^ a b c d e Tate R. (1889). "Description of some new species of marine Mollusca from South Australia and Victoria". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 60-66. Roburnella wilsoni is on the page 66. Plate 11, figure 12.
  3. ^ a b Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.

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