Leucosyrinx canyonensis

Taxobox
name = "Leucosyrinx canyonensis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
superfamilia = Conoidea
familia = Turridae
genus = "Leucosyrinx"
species = "L. canyonensis"
binomial = "Leucosyrinx canyonensis"
binomial_authority = (Dell, 1956)
synonyms = "Antimelatoma canyonensis" Dell, 1956

"Leucosyrinx canyonensis" is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found off Otago in the South Island.

Habitat

This turrid is found at depths of between 475 and 640 m.

hell description

The shell is small, narrowly , with a pagoda-like spire, the whorls strongly angled by a median , crenulated at first, later gently scalloped. The whole surface is evenly covered with linea-spaced spiral threads.

The sinus is deep and broad, occupying the whole of the shoulder slope..

Coloration is creamy-white. The shell height is up to 9.3 mm, and width up to 3.7 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1