Leucosyrinx luzonica

Leucosyrinx luzonica
Shell of Leucosyrinx luzonica (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific 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 luzonicaPowell, 1969 (original combination)

Leucosyrinx luzonica 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 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.

External links

• 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