Leucosyrinx climoi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Leucosyrinx |
Species: | L. climoi
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Binomial name | |
Leucosyrinx climoi Maxwell, 1988
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Distribution
editFossils of this marine species were found in New Zealand.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Leucosyrinx climoi Maxwell, 1988 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831508 on 2018-11-25
- Maxwell, Phillip A. Late Miocene deep-water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, westland, New Zealand: paleoecology and systematics. No. 55. New Zealand Geological Survey, 1988.
- Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.