Guraleus is a genus

Genus

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 of sea snail

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s, marine

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 gastropod mollusks in the family

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 Conidae, the cone snails

Conus

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 and their allies.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species

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 (WoRMS) the following species with valid names are included within the genus Guraleus :

• Guraleus alucinans (Sowerby III, 1896)
• Guraleus amplexus (Gould, 1860)
• Guraleus anisus (Cotton, 1947)
• Guraleus asper Laseron, 1954
• Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864)
• Guraleus bordaensis Cotton, 1947
• Guraleus brazieri (Angas, 1871)
• Guraleus colmani Shuto, 1983
• Guraleus cuspis (Sowerby III, 1896)
• Guraleus delicatula (Tenison-Woods, 1879)
• Guraleus deshayesii (Dunker, 1860)
• Guraleus diacritus Cotton, 1947
• Guraleus fallaciosa (Sowerby III, 1896) : mentioned in OBIS as Guraleus (Guraleus) fallaciosus (Sowerby, 1897)
• Guraleus fascinus Hedley, 1922
• Guraleus flaccida (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899): mentioned in OBIS as Guraleus (Guraleus) flaccidus (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899)
• Guraleus flavescens (Angas, 1877)
• Guraleus florus Cotton, 1947
• Guraleus fossa Laseron, 1954
• Guraleus halmaherica (Schepman, 1913) : mentioned in OBIS as Guraleus halmahericus (Schepman, 1913)
• Guraleus himerodes (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
• Guraleus incrusta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
• Guraleus jacksonensis (Angas, 1877)
• Guraleus kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1904)
• Guraleus lallemantiana (Crosse & Fischer, 1865): mentioned in OBIS as Guraleus (Guraleus) lallemantianus (Crosse & Fischer, 1865)
• Guraleus mitralis (Adams & Angas, 1864)
• Guraleus nanus Laseron, 1954
• Guraleus ornata (Sowerby III, 1896)
• Guraleus picta (Adams & Angas, 1864) : mentioned in OBIS as Guraleus (Guraleus) pictus (Adams & Angas, 1864)
• Guraleus savuensis (Schepman, 1913)
• Guraleus tasmanica (Tenison-Woods, 1876) : mentioned in OBIS as Guraleus (Euguraleus) tasmanicus (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
• Guraleus tasmantis Laseron, 1954
• Guraleus thornleyanus (Laseron, 1954)
• Guraleus verhoeffeni (Martens, 1904)
• Guraleus wilesianus Hedley, 1922

Species brought into synonymy:

• Guraleus costatus Hedley, 1922 : synonym of Antiguraleus costatus (Hedley, 1922)
• Guraleus morologus Hedley, 1922 : synonym of Turrella morologus (Hedley, 1922)
• Guraleus nitidus Hedley, 1922 : synonym of Marita nitidus (Hedley, 1922)
• Guraleus permutatus Hedley, 1922 : synonym of Antiguraleus permutatus (Hedley, 1922)

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use

• Guraleus semicarinata (Pilsbry, 1904)
• Guraleus tabatensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
• Guraleus tokunagae (Finlay, 1926)

Subgenus Guraleus Hedley, 1918

• Guraleus inornatus (Sowerby, 1897)
• Guraleus insculptus (Adams & Angas, 1864)
• Guraleus schoutenensis May, 1901

Subgenus Mitraguraleus Laseron, 1954