Roburnella wilsoni

Roburnella wilsoni is a species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Oxynoidae.

Roburnella wilsoni
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
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia Informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:	Oxynooidea
Family:	Oxynoidae
Genus:	Roburnella Ev. Marcus, 1982[1]
Species:	R. wilsoni
Binomial name
Roburnella wilsoni (Tate, 1889)[2]
Synonyms
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).