Leucosyrinx

''Leucosyrinx'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.WoRMS (2011). Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138611 on 2011-03-11

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.

This group is intended to contain the operculated species of ''Pleurotomida'' which are so characteristic of the archibenthal region. They are distinctly contrasted with the coarse, spotted or maculated shallow-water species of Pleuroma proper, by their thin, white, delicately sculptured shells. They are apart from '' Drillia'' by having no subtubular projection of the anal notch when adult and no thick varix to mark their maturity. They are separable from the archibenthal Drillias also by their larger shells, longer siphonal canal, and more inflated habit. The anal notch is generally wider, more rounded and nearer the suture than in the typical ''Pleurotoma'', and the operculum proportionally wider and more delicate. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College vol. 18 (1889)
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Species

Species within the genus ''Leucosyrinx'' include:

* '' Leucosyrinx amycus'' W.H. Dall, 1919
* '' Leucosyrinx barashi'' Nordsieck, 1982
* '' Leucosyrinx bolbodes'' (Watson, 1881)
* '' Leucosyrinx caecilia'' Thiele, 1925
* ''Leucosyrinx canyonensis'' (Dell, 1956)
* † '' Leucosyrinx chloris'' Olsson, 1922
* '' Leucosyrinx claviforma'' (Kosuge, 1992)
* † '' Leucosyrinx climoi'' Maxwell, 1988
* '' Leucosyrinx clionella'' Dall, 1908
* '' Leucosyrinx elsa'' Thiele, 1925
* '' Leucosyrinx equatorialis'' (Dall, 1919)
* '' Leucosyrinx eremita'' (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
* '' Leucosyrinx erna'' Thiele, 1925
* '' Leucosyrinx esilda'' (Dall, 1908)
* '' Leucosyrinx exulans'' (Dall, 1890)
* † '' Leucosyrinx fijiensis'' Ladd, 1982
* '' Leucosyrinx hemimeres'' (Watson, 1881)
* '' Leucosyrinx herilda'' (Dall, 1908)
* † '' Leucosyrinx iwaensis'' MacNeil, 1960
* '' Leucosyrinx julia'' Thiele, 1925
* ''Leucosyrinx kantori'' McLean, 1995
* '' Leucosyrinx lancea'' Lee, 2001
* ''Leucosyrinx luzonica'' (Powell, 1969)
* '' Leucosyrinx macrobertsoni'' Powell, 1958
* † '' Leucosyrinx nicoya'' Olsson, 1942
* ''Leucosyrinx pelagia'' (Dall, 1881)
* '' Leucosyrinx pikei'' (Dell, 1963)
* '' Leucosyrinx plebeia'' (Watson, 1881)
* † '' Leucosyrinx rabbidgei'' Ladd, 1982
* † '' Leucosyrinx rugata'' (Conrad, 1862)
* '' Leucosyrinx sansibarica'' Thiele, 1925
* '' Leucosyrinx subgrundifera'' (Dall, 1888)
* '' Leucosyrinx taludana'' Castellanos & Landoni, 1993
* '' Leucosyrinx turritus'' Sysoev, 1990
* '' Leucosyrinx verrillii'' (Dall, 1881)
* † '' Leucosyrinx xenica'' Woodring, 1970

;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Leucosyrinx angusteplicata'' (Strebel, 1905): synonym of ''Antarctospira angusteplicata'' (Strebel, 1905)
* ''Leucosyrinx (Sibogasyrinx) archibenthalis'' Powell, 1969 : synonym of ''Sibogasyrinx archibenthalis'' (Powell, 1969) (basionym)
* ''Leucosyrinx aequatorialis'' Thiele, 1925: synonym of ''Comitas aequatorialis'' (Thiele, 1925)
* † ''Leucosyrinx alta'' (Harris, 1897): synonym of † '' Parasyrinx alta'' (Harris, 1897)
* ''Leucosyrinx angustiplicata'' (Strebel, 1905): synonym of ''Leucosyrinx angusteplicata'' (Strebel, 1905)
* ''Leucosyrinx archibenthalis'' Powell, 1969: synonym of ''Sibogasyrinx archibenthalis'' (Powell, 1969) (original combination)
* ''Leucosyrinx badenpowelli'' Dell, 1990: synonym of ''Antarctospira badenpowelli'' (Dell, 1990)
* ''Leucosyrinx circinata'' Dall, 1873: synonym of ''Aforia circinata'' (Dall, 1873)
* ''Leucosyrinx circumcinctum'' Locard, 1897: synonym of ''Borsonia hirondelleae'' (Dautzenberg, 1891)
* ''Leucosyrinx cuvierensis'' Mestayer, 1919: synonym of ''Terefundus cuvierensis'' (Mestayer, 1919)
* ''Leucosyrinx dalli'' (Bush, 1893): synonym of ''Corinnaeturris leucomata'' (Dall, 1881)
* ''Leucosyrinx erica'' Thiele, 1925: synonym of ''Comitas erica'' (Thiele, 1925)
* ''Leucosyrinx erosina'' Dall, 1908: synonym of ''Borsonella erosina'' (Dall, 1908)
* ''Leucosyrinx erranea'' (Locard, 1897): synonym of ''Borsonia hirondelleae'' (Dautzenberg, 1891)
* ''Leucosyrinx falklandica'' Powell, 1951: synonym of ''Antarctospira falklandica'' (Powell, 1951) (original combination)
* ''Leucosyrinx galapagana'' Dall, 1919: synonym of ''Exilia cortezi'' (Dall, 1908)
* ''Leucosyrinx goodei'' Dall, 1890: synonym of ''Aforia goodei'' (Dall, 1890)
* ''Leucosyrinx gradata'' Thiele, 1925: synonym of '' Leucosyrinx verrillii'' (Dall, 1881)
* ''Leucosyrinx janetae'' Bartsch, 1934: synonym of '' Leucosyrinx verrillii'' (Dall, 1881)
* ''Leucosyrinx kincaidi'' Dall, 1919: synonym of ''Aforia kincaidi'' (Dall, 1919)
* ''Leucosyrinx macroberstoni'' Powell, 1958: synonym of '' Leucosyrinx macrobertsoni'' Powell, 1958 (misspelling)
* ''Leucosyrinx mai'' Li & Li, 2008: synonym of ''Comispira mai'' (B.-Q. Li & X.-Z. Li, 2008) (original combination)
* ''Leucosyrinx mawsoni'' Powell, 1958: synonym of ''Antarctospira mawsoni'' (Powell, 1958) (original combination)
* ''Leucosyrinx minatoensis'' Otuka, 1959: synonym of ''Aforia circinata'' (Dall, 1873)
* ''Leucosyrinx otohimei'' Ozaki, 1958: synonym of ''Aforia circinata'' (Dall, 1873)
* ''Leucosyrinx pacifica'' Dall, 1908: synonym of'' Belomitra pacifica'' (Dall, 1908)
* ''Leucosyrinx paragenota'' Powell, 1951: synonym of '' Antarctospira paragenota'' (Powell, 1951)
* ''Leucosyrinx paratenoceras'' Powell, 1951: synonym of '' Typhlodaphne paratenoceras'' (Powell, 1951) (original combination)
* ''Leucosyrinx persimilis'' (Dall, 1890): synonym of ''Aforia persimilis'' (Dall, 1890)
* ''Leucosyrinx pyramidalis'' (Schepman, 1913): synonym of ''Sibogasyrinx pyramidalis'' (Schepman, 1913)
* ''Leucosyrinx queenslandica'' Powell, 1969: synonym of ''Zemacies queenslandica'' (Powell, 1969)
* ''Leucosyrinx recta'' Hedley, 1903: synonym of ''Austrocarina recta'' (Hedley, 1903)
* ''Leucosyrinx sigsbeei'' (Dall, 1881): synonym of '' Leucosyrinx verrillii'' (Dall, 1881)
* † ''Leucosyrinx subaltus'' P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1919: synonym of † '' Parasyrinx subalta'' (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1919)
* ''Leucosyrinx tenoceras'' (Dall, 1889): synonym of '' Leucosyrinx verrillii'' (Dall, 1881)
* ''Leucosyrinx thomsoni'' Mestayer, 1919: synonym of ''Taranis nexilis bicarinata'' (Suter, 1915)

References

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* Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

External links

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Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda).'' Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308

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Pseudomelatomidae
Gastropod genera