Leucosyrinx subgrundifera

Leucosyrinx subgrundifera
Shell of Leucosyrinx subgrundifera (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Leucosyrinx
Species:	L. subgrundifera
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx subgrundifera (Dall, 1888)
Synonyms [1]
Pleurotoma (Leucosyrinx) subgrundiferaDall, 1888

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 34 mm.

The sharp keel is bent away from the spire and is bent instead towards the siphonal canal. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off North Carolina to Florida, United States, and off Yucatán, Mexico.

References

1. Leucosyrinx subgrundifera (Dall, 1888) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 March 2010.
2. W.H. Dall (1888) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v. 15 (1888) p. 66

• W.H. Dall (1889), A preliminary catalogue of the shell-bearing marine mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of the United States, with illustrations of many of the species; Bulletin of the United States National Museum ; no. 37

External links

• Rosenberg G., Moretzsohn F. & García E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx subgrundifera
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.