Guraleus tabatensis

Guraleus tabatensis
Original image of a shell of Guraleus tabatensis
Scientific classification
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Animalia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Mollusca
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Gastropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Caenogastropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Neogastropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Conoidea
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Mangeliidae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Guraleus
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	<div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">G. tabatensis
Binomial name
Guraleus tabatensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
Synonyms
Pleurotoma (Drillia) tabatensis Tokunaga, 1906

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

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

(Original description) This very rare shell contains six whorls, the upper three smooth, the rest about coarsely (about right) longitudinally costated with no trace of transverse ribs. The shell is distinctly angulated at the shoulder. The aperture is long and measures a little shorter than half the height of the shell.^[1]

This marine species occurs off Japan . It has also been found as a fossil in the Tabata region, near Tokyo.

• "Guraleus tabatensis" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/1/Shell_19241.shtml. 
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Guraleus tabatensis

Wikidata ☰ Q39087560 entry

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