- Source: Roburnella wilsoni
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.
The specific name "wilsoni" is apparently in honor of U.K./Australian malacologist John Bracebridge Wilson (1828-1895), who collected the type specimen.
Distribution
The type locality for this species is from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia.
Description
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.
The original text (the type description) reads as follows:
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).
References
External links
http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/robuwils