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Guildfordia

Guildfordia
Two views of a shell of Guildfordia yoka
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Guildfordia
Gray, 1850
Type species
Trochus triumphans
Philippi, 1841
Synonyms
  • Fractopella Bell, 1970
  • Fractopella megapex Beu, 1970
  • Guildfordia (Fractopella) Beu, 1970
  • Guildfordia (Opella) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Opella Finlay, 1926
  • Opella hendersoni Marwick, 1934

Guildfordia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Description

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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

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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

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Species within the genus Guildfordia include:

Species brought into synonymy
Taxon inquirendum

References

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