Syrinx (gastropod)
Syrinx is a monospecific genus of large sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.[1]
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Distribution
This marine species can be found along the coasts of northern and western half of Australia and adjacent areas, including eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Species
- Syrinx aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Syrinx buccinoidea Röding, 1798 (nomen dubium)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Syrinx annulata Röding, 1798: synonym of Pustulatirus annulatus (Röding, 1798)
- Syrinx marmorata Röding, 1798: synonym of Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
- Syrinx nicobaricus Röding, 1798: synonym of Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
- Syrinx producta Röding, 1798: synonym of Fusinus longissimus (Gmelin, 1791)
References
- Bouchet, P. (2011). Cryptofusus Beu, 2011 . Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204588 on 2011-04-27
- Harasewych M.G. & Petit R.E. (1989). The nomenclatural status and phylogenetic affinities of Syrinx aruanus Linné 1758 (Prosobranchia: Turbinellidae). The Nautilus 103(2):83-84
- John D. Taylor and Emily A. Glover, Food of giants – field observations on the diet of Syrinx aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Turbinellidae), the largest living gastropod; F. E. Wells, D. I. Walker and D. S. Jones (eds.) 2003. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Perth
External links
- Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Hamburg: Trapp. viii, 199 pp.
- Lyons W.G. & Snyder M.A. (2019). Reassignments to the genus Marmorofusus Snyder & Lyons, 2014 (Neogastropoda: Fasciolariidae: Fusininae) of species from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and southwestern Australia. Zootaxa. 4714(1): 1-64
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