Leucosyrinx julia

Leucosyrinx julia
Shell of Leucosyrinx julia (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Leucosyrinx
Species:
L. julia
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx julia
Thiele, 1925

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

Description

The largest type specimen has a shell length of 10.6 mm; it appears to be adult, and was illustrated by Thiele (1925). Conchologically, it exhibits all diagnostic features of Leucosyrinx. The original illustration depicts a strongly angular shell base, although in the actual specimen this appears somewhat more obtuse. In overall outline and size, the shell resembles Leucosyrinx lozoueti, which, however, differs in having a distinct spiral sculpture composed of much finer and more uniformly spaced cords. A.W.B. Powell (1969) referred several specimens from the John Murray expedition in the Gulf of Aden, at a depth of 1040 m and with shell lengths of up to 53 mm, to this species.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off East Africa to the Gulf of Aden at depths between 693 m and 1040 m.

References

  1. ↑ Leucosyrinx julia Thiele, 1925. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  2. ↑ 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: 95. Retrieved 17 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.