Leucosyrinx luzonica

Leucosyrinx luzonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Leucosyrinx luzonica
Shell of Leucosyrinx luzonica (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Leucosyrinx
Species:
L. luzonica
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx luzonica
(Powell, 1969)
Synonyms[1]

Comitas luzonica Powell, 1969 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 47.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Luzon Island, the Philippines at a depth of 1719 m.

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Leucosyrinx luzonica (Powell, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1259199 on 2018-11-24
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324
  • Lee Y.-C. 2001. Two new bathyal turrids (Gastropoda: Turridae) from West Pacific. Memoir, Malacological Society of Taiwan, 1: 7–9.
  • Gastropods.com: Comitas luzonica
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Kantor Yu.I., Fedosov A.E. & Puillandre N. (2018). New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters. Ruthenica. 28(2): 47-82
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris
  • "Comitas luzonica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  • Biolib.cz: Comitas luzonica


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