Leucosyrinx subgrundifera

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

Leucosyrinx subgrundifera
Shell of Leucosyrinx subgrundifera (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
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
Pleurotoma (Leucosyrinx) subgrundifera Dall, 1888

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.

Distribution

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

References

• 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.