Guraleus savuensis

Guraleus savuensis
Original image of a shell of Guraleus savuensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Guraleus
Species: G. savuensis
Binomial name
Guraleus savuensis
(M.M. Schepman, 1913)
Synonyms[1]
  • Guraleus (Euguraleus) savuensis (Schepman, 1913)
  • Mangilia savuensis Schepman, 1913 (original combination)

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, witha rather short siphonal canal. It is rather strong, yellowish-whitie, 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. 1 2 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
  2. ↑ 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.

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