Guildfordia

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Guildfordia

Two views of a shell of Guildfordia yoka
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Turbinidae
Genus:  | Guildfordia
Gray, 1850
Type species
Trochus triumphans

Philippi, 1841

Synonyms

* † Fractopella Bell, 1970
* † Fractopella megapex Beu, 1970
* † Guildfordia (Fractopella) Beu, 1970
* † Guildfordia (Opella) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation
* † Opella Finlay, 1926
* † Opella hendersoni Marwick, 1934

Guildfordia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

## Contents

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

## Description

The imperforate shell is wheel-shaped. It is low-conic and granulose above, convex below. The periphery is armed with long slender radiating spines, which are concealed at the sutures. The operculum is flat, with a subobsolete arcuate rib outside. The central tooth of the radula has no cusps.[2]

## Distribution

This marine genus occurs off the Philippines , Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Indian Ocean, Oceania, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

## Species

Species within the genus Guildfordia include:

* Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979[3] \- Aculeate Star Turban
* † Guildfordia hendersoni (Marwick, 1934)
* † Guildfordia megapex (Beu, 1970)
* † Guildfordia ostarrichi Pacaud, 2017
* Guildfordia radians Dekker, 2008[4]
* † Guildfordia subfimbriata (Suter, 1917)
* Guildfordia superba Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2005[5] \- Superb Star Turban
* Guildfordia triumphans (Philippi, 1841)[6] \- Triumphant Star Turban
* Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888[7] \- Yoka Star Turban

Species brought into synonymy

* Guildfordia delicata Habe & Okutani, 1983: synonym of Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888
* Guildfordia gloriosa Kuroda & Habe in Kira, 1961: synonym of Bolma henica (Watson, 1885)
* Guildfordia heliophorus Gray: synonym of Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784)
* Guildfordia kurzi Petuch, 1980 \- Kurz's Star Turban: synonym of Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979
* Guildfordia tagaroae Alf & Kreipl, 2006:[8] synonym of Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979

Taxon inquirendum

* Guildfordia monilifera (Hedley & Willey, 1896) (possibly a synonym of Guildfordia aculeata)

## References

1. ↑ Guildfordia Gray, 1850. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
3. ↑ Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
4. ↑ Guildfordia radians Dekker, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
5. ↑ Guildfordia superba Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2005. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
6. ↑ Guildfordia triumphans (Philippi, 1841). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
7. ↑ Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
8. ↑ Guildfordia tagaroae Alf & Kreipl, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.

* Marwick, J. (1934) Some New Zealand Tertiary Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 21, 10–21, 2 pls.
* Beu, A. G. (1970). Descriptions of new species and notes on taxonomy of New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Earth Science. 7: 113-136
* Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245

## External links

* Gray J.E. (1850). [text. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
* Fischer P. (1873-1879). [continuation of Kiener] Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Volume 10, Famille des Turbinacées. Genre Turbo (Turbo), pp. i-iv + 1-128 (1873), pls 1, 28, 44-49, 53-54, 57-120. Volume 11, Genres Troque (Trochus, including Calcar), pp. 1–96, pls 37-86 (1875); 97-144 (1876); 145-240 (1877); 241-336 (1878); 337-423, Xenophora pp. 424–450, Tectarius pp. 451–459, Risella pp. 460–463, Index 464-480 (1879).
* Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
* Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592

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