Typhlosyrinx

Typhlosyrinx
Shell of Typhlosyrinx supracostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Typhlosyrinx Thiele, 1925
Type species
Pleurotoma (Leucosyrinx) vepallidaMartens, 1902
Species
See text

Typhlosyrinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae. ^[1]

This genus was created by Johannes Thiele in 1925 to accommodate Pleurotorna vepallidaMartens, 1902. The genus remains little known because of the original scarcity of specimens in the museums. Deap-sea expeditions have since recovered more than 200 additional specimens from the South-East Asia and the South-West Pacific, mainly in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Species

Species within the genus Typhlosyrinx include:

• Typhlosyrinx neocaledoniensis Bouchet & Sysoev, 2001
• Typhlosyrinx panamica Bouchet & Sysoev, 2001
• Typhlosyrinx praecipua (E. A. Smith, 1899)
• Typhlosyrinx supracostata (Schepman, 1913)
• Typhlosyrinx vepallida (Martens, 1902)

Species bought into synonymy

• Typhlosyrinx chrysopelexBarnard, 1963: synonym of Gymnobela chrysopelex (Barnard, 1963) (original combination)
• Typhlosyrinx pyrropelexBarnard, 1963: synonym of Austrobela pyrropelex (Barnard, 1963) (original combination)
• Typhlosyrinx subroseaBarnard, 1963 accepted as Xanthodaphne subrosea (Barnard, 1963) (original combination)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Typhlosyrinx Thiele, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432581 on 2020-04-24

External links

• Bouchet, P. & Sysoev, A., 2001. Typhlosyrinx-like tropical deep-water turriform gastropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea). Journal of Natural History 35: 1693-1715
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308