Leucosyrinx kantori

Leucosyrinx kantori
Original image of a shell of Leucosyrinx kantori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Leucosyrinx
Species:	L. kantori
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx kantori McLean, 1995
Synonyms [1]
Antiplanes amycusDall, 1919

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 21.5 mm, its diameter 9.5 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is covered with a brownish olive periostracum. The shell contains five or more moderately rounded whorls exclusive of the (lost) protoconch. The suture is distinct with a wide rounded ridge in front of it, forming the posterior boundary of the anal fasciole. The spiral sculpture consists of a few obscure threads on the fasciole and in front of the shoulder 8 or 9, on the body whorl 15 to 18 flattish, rather close-set threads smaller and closer anteriorly and absent from the siphonal canal. The axial sculpture consists of more or less distinct incremental lines, and on the upper spire of about 15 very oblique anteriorly protracted riblets chiefly visible at the shoulder and obsolete on or entirely absent from the last two whorls. The anal sulcus is wide, deep, rounded, the fasciole slightly impressed. The outer lip is thin, sharp and arcuately produce The inner lip is erased. The columella is short, white, obliquely attenuated in front. The siphonal canal is short, wide, distinct and slightly recurved. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off California, USA.

References

1. Leucosyrinx kantori McLean, 1995 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 March 2010.
2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . (described as Antiplanes amycus)

• McLean, 1995: Three additional new genera and two replacement names for northeastern Pacific prosobranch gastropods; The Nautilus v.108 (1994-1195)

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.