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Leucosyrinx

Kantor, Yuri I.;Fedosov, Alexander;Puillandre, Nicolas

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Leucosyrinx

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Leucosyrinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderNeogastropoda
  5. FamilyPseudomelatomidae
Habitatmarine

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Specimen records
360
With media
215
Family
Pseudomelatomidae
Collections
UWBM, LACM, UF, NMV, USNM, PRI
Recorded in
United States, Panama, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Islands, Antarctica, Japan

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pseudomelatomidae
Image
Leucosyrinx verrillii 001.jpg
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taxon name
Leucosyrinx
taxon rank
genus
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Category:Leucosyrinx
Commons category
Leucosyrinx
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Encyclopedic overview

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Leucosyrinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

==Description== (Original description) The thin shell is white or pale without color pattern. The anal notch lies behind the periphery or at the suture. The sculpture is delicate and consists of spiral keels or threads and often oblique riblets on the shoulder of the whorls. The peripheral keel, if present, is not recurved. The operculum is thin, nucleus apical, scar of attachment small. The larval shell is glassy, rounded or keeled. The other shell characters are as in Pleurotoma. The species type is Pleurotoma verrillii Dall.

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