Guraleus pictus
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| Guraleus pictus | |
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| Shell of Guraleus pictus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Guraleus |
| Species: | G. pictus |
| Binomial name | |
| Guraleus pictus (Adams & Angas, 1864) | |
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Guraleus pictus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
(Original description in Latin) The shell is turreted-fusiform, with a produced spire that is longer than the aperture. It is pale tawny, adorned with a broad, brownish-purplish band in the middle of the whorls, and equipped with an opaque white transverse posterior zone. The whorls are somewhat convex, longitudinally plicate, with distant, flexuous, rib-like folds, and closely grooved transversely. The aperture is elongated; the lip is simple; and the outer lip is varicose externally, smooth internally, with an acute and broadly sinuous posterior margin.[2]
The Guraleus pictus has a typical shell length of 17mm, variable in size, shape and extent of brown banding.[3]
