Leptoconchus lamarckii

Leptoconchus lamarckii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Réunion.

References

• Massin C. (1982). Contribution to the knowledge of two boring gastropods with an annotated list of the genera Magilus Montfort, 1810 and Leptoconchus Rüppell, 1835. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 53: 1-28.
• Oliverio, M. (2008). Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481-585
• Oliverio M. 2008. Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the Marquesas Islands. Journal of Conchology 39(5): 569-584

External links

• MNHN, Paris: syntype
• Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris