Leucosyrinx kirai
| Leucosyrinx kirai | |
|---|---|
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| Shell of Leucosyrinx kirai (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Leucosyrinx |
| Species: | L. kirai |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucosyrinx kirai Powell, 1969 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Comitas kirai A. W. B. Powell, 1969 superseded combination | |
Leucosyrinx kirai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 30 mm.
The species is very similar to Leucosyrinx breviplicata in overall shell shape and, in particular, in its spiral sculpture. It is unusually small for a Comitas (reaching only 40 mm), and in its general shell characters it matches species of Leucosyrinx, including a subsutural anal sinus that occupies the entire subsutural ramp.
Therefore, it is provisionally transferred it to Leucosyrinx, pending additional data on radular morphology. Although its shell characters could justify treating it as a synonym of L. breviplicata, it occurs at much shallower depths (50–400 m; Hasegawa et al. 2000: 633), which argues for maintaining it as a separate species for the time being.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Japan and in the South China Sea.
References
- 1 2 Leucosyrinx kirai (A. W. B. Powell, 1969). 18 July 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Kantor, Y. I.; Fedosov, A.; Puillandre, N. (2025). "Revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889 (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 999: 97. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
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External links
- Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Comitas kirai". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.