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

Guildfordia
Two views of a shell of Guildfordia yoka
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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

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
  • 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 inquirendum
  • Guildfordia monilifera (Hedley & Willey, 1896) (possibly a synonym of Guildfordia aculeata)

References

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  • Marwick, J. (1934) Some New Zealand Tertiary Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 21, 10–21, 2 pls.
  • Beu, A. G. (1970). Descriptions of new species and notes on taxonomy of New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Earth Science. 7: 113-136
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245
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