Guraleus savuensis

Short description: Species of gastropod

Guraleus savuensis

Original image of a shell of Guraleus savuensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | 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]

## Contents

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

## Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its width 3 mm.

(Original description) The shell is elongately fusiform, with a rather short siphonal canal. It is rather strong, yellowish-white, 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.

## External links

* Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
* "Guraleus savuensis" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/6/Shell_44056.shtml.

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