''Guraleus deshayesii'' is a species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Mangeliidae.
[WoRMS (2009). Guraleus deshayesii (Dunker, 1860). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433928 on 2017-07-09]
Description
The length of the oblong, subfusiform, dirty white shell varies between 10 mm and 51 mm. The whorls are slightly subangulate. The longitudinal ribs are crossed by raised transverse striae. The
aperture is oblong. The outer
lip is incrassate and covered with transverse marks and marked with a red spot.
Dunker W.H. (1861), Mollusca japonica descripta et tabulis tribus iconum illustrata a Guilielmo Dunker; Stuttgartiae,typis et sumtibus E. Schweizerbart,1861
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
and Japan
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.
References
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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deshayesii
Gastropods described in 1860