Guildfordia
| Guildfordia | |
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| Two views of a shell of Guildfordia yoka | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Guildfordia Gray, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Trochus triumphans Philippi, 1841 | |
Guildfordia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
Description
The imperforate shell is wheel-shaped. It is low-conic and granulose above, convex below. The periphery is armed with long slender radiating spines, which are concealed at the sutures. The operculum is flat, with a subobsolete arcuate rib outside. The central tooth of the radula has no cusps.[2]
Distribution
This marine genus occurs off the Philippines, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Indian Ocean, Oceania, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
Species
Species within the genus Guildfordia include:
- Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979[3] - Aculeate Star Turban
- Guildfordia radians Dekker, 2008[4]
- Guildfordia superba Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2005[5] - Superb Star Turban
- Guildfordia triumphans (Philippi, 1841)[6] - Triumphant Star Turban
- Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888[7] - Yoka Star Turban
- Species brought into synonymy
- Guildfordia delicata Habe & Okutani, 1983: synonym of Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888
- Guildfordia gloriosa Kuroda & Habe in Kira, 1961: synonym of Bolma henica (Watson, 1885)
- Guildfordia heliophorus Gray: synonym of Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784)
- Guildfordia kurzi Petuch, 1980 - Kurz's Star Turban: synonym of Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979
- Guildfordia tagaroae Alf & Kreipl, 2006:[8] synonym of Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979
- Taxon inquerendum
- Guildfordia monilifera (Hedley & Willey, 1896) (possibly a synonym of Guildfordia aculeata)
References
- ↑ Guildfordia Gray, 1850. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- ↑ Guildfordia aculeata Kosuge, 1979. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Guildfordia radians Dekker, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Guildfordia superba Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2005. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Guildfordia triumphans (Philippi, 1841). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Guildfordia yoka Jousseaume, 1888. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Guildfordia tagaroae Alf & Kreipl, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- Gray, 1850 in M.E. Gray Figures of molluscous animals selected from various authors, 4: 87
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592
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