Roburnella
Species of gastropod
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Roburnella wilsoni is a species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Oxynoidae.
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| Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Roburnella wilsoni from its original description by Ralph Tate (1889). | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Oxynoidae |
| Genus: | Roburnella Ev. Marcus, 1982[1] |
| Species: | R. wilsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Roburnella wilsoni | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lobiger wilsoni Tate, 1889[2] | |
Roburnella wilsoni is the only species in the genus Roburnella.[3]
The specific name "wilsoni" is apparently in honor of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson, who collected the type specimen.
Distribution
The type locality for this species is from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia.[2][3]
Description
Roburnella wilsoni was described based on collection of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828–1895). It was originally described (under name Lobiger Wilsoni) by Australian biologist of British origin Ralph Tate in 1889.[2]
The original text (the type description) reads as follows:[2]
Animal with the body produced into a very narrow, pointed,
smooth tail of a green colour, shortly extended beyond the shell. Foot with two oblong-rounded and pale-green lobes, which are somewhat attenuated into a broadish stalk.
Shell thin, flexible, straw-yellow; spire rudimentary but involute. Somewhat pyriform, slightly attenuated in front, and truncated apically; aperture narrow-ovate, truncate behind. Surface finely striated. Length, 8 ; width, 5 millimetres.
Locality. — Lower end of South Channel of Port Phillip, seven
to sixteen fathoms (J. B. Wilson).