Leucosyrinx luzonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
| Leucosyrinx luzonica | |
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| Shell of Leucosyrinx luzonica (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Leucosyrinx |
| Species: | L. luzonica
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucosyrinx luzonica (Powell, 1969)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Comitas luzonica Powell, 1969 (original combination) | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 47.4 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Luzon Island, the Philippines at a depth of 1719 m.
References
edit- ^ a b 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.
External links
edit- Gastropods.com: Comitas luzonica
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- 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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