Leucosyrinx sansibarica

Leucosyrinx sansibarica
Shell of Leucosyrinx sansibarica (syntype at Museum für Naturkunde)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Leucosyrinx
Species:
L. sansibarica
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx sansibarica
Thiele, 1925
Synonyms[1]

Brachytoma griffithii (not Gray, 1833) – sensu von Martens 1904

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

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tanzania to the Gulf of Aden, at depths between 818 m and 1469 m.

References

  • 1925. Gastropoden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. In:. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition II. Teil, vol. 17, No. 2, Gutstav Fischer, Berlin.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • 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: 105. Retrieved 7 July 2026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.