Leucosyrinx

Taxobox
name = "Leucosyrinx"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
superfamilia = Conoidea
familia = Turridae
genus = "Leucosyrinx"
genus_authority = Dall, 1889
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Leucosyrinx" is a genus of marine gastropod snails in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Distribution

Members of this genus are found world-wide in deep-water basins.

Description

The shell is sometimes large, up to 75 mm in height, elongate-fusiform, with a tall turreted spire and a long straight unnotched siphonal canal. The sinus is deep, commencing at the suture, then confluent below in a considerable forward sweep of the outer lip.

pecies

* "Leucosyrinx canyonensis" (Dell, 1956)
* "Leucosyrinx circinata"
* "Leucosyrinx crebricostata"
* "Leucosyrinx kincaidi" Dall, 1919
* "Leucosyrinx pikei" (Dell, 1963)
* "Leucosyrinx verrilli" (Dall, 1881)

References

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