Leucosyrinx

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Leucosyrinx
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Leucosyrinx
Dall, 1889
Species

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Leucosyrinx is a genus of marine gastropod snails in the family Turridae, the turrids.

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[edit] Distribution

Members of this genus are found world-wide in deep-water basins.

[edit] Description

The shell is sometimes large, up to 75 mm in height, elongate-fusiform, with a tall turreted spire and a long straight unnotched siphonal canal. The sinus is deep, commencing at the suture, then confluent below in a considerable forward sweep of the outer lip.

[edit] Species

  • Leucosyrinx canyonensis (Dell, 1956)
  • Leucosyrinx circinata
  • Leucosyrinx crebricostata
  • Leucosyrinx kincaidi Dall, 1919
  • Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963)
  • Leucosyrinx verrilli (Dall, 1881)

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