Leucosyrinx pikei

Leucosyrinx pikei
Shell of Leucosyrinx pikei (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Leucosyrinx
Species:	L. pikei
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963)
Synonyms [1]
Waitara pikei Dell, 1963

Leucosyrinx pikei is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434230 on 2018-11-18

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx pikei