Leucosyrinx pelagia
Shell of Leucosyrinx pelagia (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Leucosyrinx
Species:	L. pelagia
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx pelagia (Dall, 1881)
Synonyms [1]
Mangelia pelagia(Dall, 1881) Pleurotoma (Mangilia) pelagiaDall, 1881 (original combination)

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

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

The length of the shell attains 11 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

(Original description) The slender, thin shell is white, smooth but not polished. It contains eight whorls. The protoconch is small, the three apical whorls inflated, white, perfectly smooth. The remainder are indistinctly keeled midway between the sutures by a ridge, over which, the lines of growth pass obliquely. The shell is as it were pinched up at regular intervals into oblique projections, ten to fourteen on each whorl, fewer proportionally on the larger whorls. The shell is otherwise not sculptured. The suture is distinct, not appressed. The siphonal canal and aperture are long and narrow. The notch is well marked, but not forming a distinct band. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs off West Florida, United States.

References

• G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 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 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.