Leucosyrinx pikei
Leucosyrinx pikei | |
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Shell of Leucosyrinx pikei (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Leucosyrinx |
Species: | L. pikei
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Binomial name | |
Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Waitara pikei Dell, 1963 |
Leucosyrinx pikei is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]
Distribution[]
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island.
References[]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434230 on 2018-11-18
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links[]
- Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx pikei
Categories:
- Leucosyrinx
- Gastropods of New Zealand
- Gastropods described in 1963
- Pseudomelatomidae stubs