Guraleus fallaciosus

Guraleus fallaciosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Guraleus fallaciosus
Original drawing of a shell of Guraleus fallaciosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. fallaciosus
Binomial name
Guraleus fallaciosus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
Daphnella (?) fallaciosa G. B. Sowerby III, 1896 (original combination) Guraleus (Guraleus) fallaciosus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897) Mangilia fallaciosa (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.25 mm.

(Original description) The dirty white, elongately turreted shell has an acuminate spire with a papillary apex . It contains 6½ convex whorls, barely angulate and densely spirally striated. The sutures are narrowly canaliculate. The aperture is fairly wide. The outer lip is thin and backwards slightly sinuate. The columella is rather straight. .It is a shell of simple character, with a rather long spire and short mouth. It is closely spirally striated, only the upper whorls showing ribs or plicae.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria.