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genus

Guttula Schepman, 1908

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Seguenziida »  family Seguenziidae

Description

Shell small, conoidal, smooth, pearly, perforate, aperture rounded, with an angle at the base, operculum few-whorled.
Schepman, 1908. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part I: Rhipidoglossa and Docoglossa. (Original description)

Taxonomy

It is chiefly on account of the peculiar radula, that I have located the only species in a new genus. Conchologically it resembles Margarita, were it not for the angular aperture. It may prove to be only a young shell, but a similar radula I have only found in what I describe with some doubt as a Basilissa and in the type of that genus; however the differences of the radulae are too obvious, to join them in one genus.

A detailed description of the radula you find under the type of this genus: Guttula sibogae.
Schepman, 1908. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part I: Rhipidoglossa and Docoglossa. (Original description)
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 3

species Guttula blanda K. H. Barnard, 1958

Guttula blanda

species Guttula galatheae J. Knudsen, 1964
species Guttula sibogae M. M. Schepman, 1908

Guttula sibogae


Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1098790]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Guttula Schepman, 1908]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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