Guraleus pictus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Marshall, B. (2015). Guraleus pictus (A. Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433942 on 2017-07-08
Description (Original description in Latin) The shell is turreted-fusiform, with a produced spire that is longer than the aperture. It is pale tawny, adorned with a broad, brownish-purplish band in the middle of the whorls, and equipped with an opaque white transverse posterior zone. The whorls are somewhat convex, longitudinally plicate, with distant, flexuous, rib-like folds, and closely grooved transversely. The aperture is elongated; the lip is simple; and the outer lip is varicose externally, smooth internally, with an acute and broadly sinuous posterior margin.Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418–428, pl. xxxvii
The Guraleus pictus has a typical shell length of 17mm, variable in size, shape and extent of brown banding.
Distribution This marine species is endemic to Southern Australia and Eastern Australia and can be found intertidally and subtidally amongst rocks and seaweed off the coasts of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania.
References
Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342 Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The Turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6
External links Sowerby, G.B., III. (1896) List of the Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2, 24–32, pl. 3 Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.