Roburnella wilsoni | |
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Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Roburnella wilsoni from its original description by Ralph Tate (1889). | |
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Genus: | Roburnella
Ev. Marcus, 1982
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Species: | R. wilsoni
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Roburnella wilsoni | |
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Lobiger Wilsoni Tate, 1889 [2] |
Roburnella wilsoni is a species of small sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Oxynoidae.
Roburnella wilsoni is the only species in the genus Roburnella. [3]
The specific name "wilsoni" is apparently in honor of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828-1895), who collected the type specimen.
The type locality for this species is from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia. [2] [3]
Roburnella wilsoni was described based on collection of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828-1895). It was originally described (under name Lobiger Wilsoni) by Australian biologist of British origin Ralph Tate in 1889. [2]
The original text (the type description) reads as follows: [2]
Animal with the body produced into a very narrow, pointed,
smooth tail of a green colour, shortly extended beyond the shell. Foot with two oblong-rounded and pale-green lobes, which are somewhat attenuated into a broadish stalk.
Shell thin, flexible, straw-yellow; spire rudimentary but involute. Somewhat pyriform, slightly attenuated in front, and truncated apically; aperture narrow-ovate, truncate behind. Surface finely striated. Length, 8 ; width, 5 millimetres.
Locality. — Lower end of South Channel of Port Phillip, seven
to sixteen fathoms ( J. B. Wilson).