''Guraleus mitralis'' is a species of

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, a marine

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in the

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.WoRMS (2009). Guraleus mitralis (Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432719 on 2017-07-08

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is

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to Australia and can be found off

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, Victoria and

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References

* 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 * Brazier, J. 1889. ''Notes and critical remarks on a donation of shells sent to the Museum of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland''. Journal of Conchology 6: 66–84 * Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1900. ''Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part III''. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 12(2): 170–205 * Verco, J.C. 1909. ''Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII.'' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342
Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
* May, W.L. 1923. ''An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species''. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. * Laseron, C. 1954. ''Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca)''. Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1–56, pls 1–12.

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

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
* mitralis Gastropods described in 1864 Gastropods of Australia {{Mangeliidae-stub