Leucosyrinx pikei
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Speciesbox
| taxon = Leucosyrinx pikei
| image = Leucosyrinx pikei 001.jpg
| image_caption = Shell of Leucosyrinx pikei (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
| authority = (Dell, 1963)
| synonyms = Waitara pikei Dell, 1963
| display_parents = 3
}}
Leucosyrinx pikei is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. 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
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island.
References
{{reflist}}
- 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
- [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz 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]
- {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 }}
- [http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_19638.shtml Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx pikei]
{{Taxonbar|from=Q3292999}}
Category:Gastropods of New Zealand
Category:Gastropods described in 1963
{{Pseudomelatomidae-stub}}