Guraleus delicatulus

Guraleus delicatulus
Shell of Guraleus delicatulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. delicatulus
Binomial name
Guraleus delicatulus (Tenison-Woods, 1879)
Synonyms[1]
Daphnella delicatula G.W. Tryon, 1884 Guraleus (Guraleus) insculptus delicatulus (Tenison-Woods, 1879) Mangelia delicatula Tenison-Woods, 1879 (original combination)

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

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

The shell is subdiaphanous, shining ; pale yellow, slenderly and irregularly zoned with red lines.^[2]

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria

• Tenison-Woods, J.E. (1879a) On some new species of Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1878, 32–40

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wikidata ☰ Q10292997 entry

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