Neoguraleus sinclairi
| Neoguraleus sinclairi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Neoguraleus |
| Species: | N. sinclairi
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| Binomial name | |
| Neoguraleus sinclairi (Gillies, 1882)
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Neoguraleus sinclairi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Not to be confused with Neoguraleus sinclairi (E.A.Smith, 1884) (synonym of Neoguraleus finlayi Powell, 1942).
Authority
Tucker (2004) states that Drillia sinclairi Gillies, 1882is a nude name, but it is not; Gillies (1882) renamed a misidentification by Hutton (1880), referring to p. 45 where Hutton gave a description of "Defranchia luteo-fasciata". This description is not copied from Reeve's description of "Pleurotoma luteo-fasciata".[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 11 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.
(Original description in Latin of Pleurotoma (Mangilia) sinclairii) The ovate shell is somewhat turreted. It is pale yellowish, and is adorned with two red bands at the sutures between the ribs; it has 8 convex whorls, which are slightly flattened superiorly, and are adorned with 16 thin ribs (which are nearly continuous on the base of the body whorl), and is transversely rather thickly spirally ridged , with unequal ridges continuous above and between the ribs; the aperture is small, banded with brown internally and its length is equal to 5/11 of the total length; the outer lip is thin, slightly sinuous a little below the suture; the tail is brown; the columella is covered with a very thin callus; the siphonal canal is very short and oblique. [2]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs throughout New Zealand and at the Steward Island and the Chatham Islands; fossils have been found in Pliocene strata.
References
- ^ a b c Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Neoguraleus sinclairi (Gillies, 1882). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434474 on 2017-10-19
- ^ Smith, E.A. (1884). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5 (14): 320. Retrieved 22 November 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Gillies, J. (1882) Notes on New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 14, 169–171
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p. 239)
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
- Powell, Arthur William Baden. The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae: With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics. No. 2. Unity Press limited, printers, 1942.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- New Zealand Mollusca: Neoguraleus sinclairi
- Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
- Gastropods.com: Neoguraleus sinclairi
- Tepapa : Drillia sinclairi