Guraleus australis

Short description: Species of gastropod

Guraleus australis

Apertural view of a shell of Guraleus australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Mangeliidae
Genus:  | Guraleus
Species:  |

G. australis

Binomial name
Guraleus australis

(Adams & Angas, 1864)

Synonyms[1]

* Bela australis Adams & Angas, 1864 (original combination)
* Guraleus (Mitraguraleus) australis (Adams & Angas, 1864)
* Mangilia australis Sowerby III, 1896
* Mangelia australis Hedley, 1913
* Mitraguraleus australis (A. Adams & G.F. Angas, 1864)

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

This species was considered a variety of Mangilia mitralis ( = Guraleus mitralis) by Pritchard and Gatliff in 1900[2]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm.

## Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WoRMS (2009). Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432718 on 2017-07-07
2. ↑ Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 1900, p. 173

* Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418–428, pl. xxxvii
* Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* 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.

## External links

* Sowerby, G.B., III. (1896) List of the Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2, 24–32, pl. 3 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
* "Guraleus (Mitraguraleus) mitralis australis" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_19287.shtml.

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