Neoguraleus sinclairi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Neoguraleus sinclairi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Neoguraleus
Species:
N. sinclairi
Binomial name
Neoguraleus sinclairi
(Gillies, 1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Defrancia luteofasciata Hutton, 1881
  • Drillia sinclairi Gillies, 1882 (original combination)
  • Neoguraleus whangaroaensis Powell, A.W.B., 1942
  • Pleurotoma (Mangilia) sinclairii E. A. Smith, 1884

Not to be confused with Neoguraleus sinclairi (E.A.Smith, 1884) (synonym of Neoguraleus finlayi Powell, 1942).

Authority edit

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 edit

The length of the shell attains 11 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

Distribution edit

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 edit

  1. ^ 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
  • Gillies, J. (1882) Notes on New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 14, 169–171
  • 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.
  • 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.

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