Leucorhynchia caledonica

Leucorhynchia caledonica
Shells of Leucorhynchia caledonica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Leucorhynchia
Species:	L. caledonica
Binomial name
Leucorhynchia caledonica Crosse, 1867
Synonyms
Teinostoma (Leucorhynchia) caledonicumCrosse, 1867

Leucorhynchia caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. ^[1]

Description

The diameter of the shell is 3 mm. The polished, shining, whitish shell has a subdiscoidal shape and is slightly convex above and below. The spire contains 3 flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing. The periphery is carinate. The simple peristome is continuous and is thickened at the base and produced into a tongue-like callus past the umbilicus, leaving a perforation between it and the columellar wall. ^[2]

Two views of a shell of Leucorhynchia caledonica

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, off the Philippines, Indo-Malaysia, New Caledonia and Queensland, Australia; in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Leucorhynchia caledonica Crosse, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=577188 on 2012-09-01
2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

• Crosse, H. 1867. Description d'un genre nouveau et de plusieurs espèces inédites provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 15: 312-321
• Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261-297, pls 30-31
• Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp

External links

• World Register of Marine Species
• "Leucorhynchia caledonica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.