Phymorhynchus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Description
The fusiform shell is thin, smooth, or spirally sculptured. The axial sculpture is less conspicuous. The siphonal canal is nearly obsolete. The columella and outer lip is simple. The anal sulcus is wide, shallow and close to the suture. The animal is blind, with a distinct muzzle into which the proboscis is retracted. The operculum is wanting. Type: Pleurotomella castanea <small>Dall, 1896</small>
Species
Species within the genus Phymorhynchus include:
- â Phymorhynchus agina <small>(Olsson, 1942)</small>
- Phymorhynchus alberti <small>(Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906)</small>
- Phymorhynchus buccinoides <small>Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993</small>
- Phymorhynchus carinatus <small>Waren & Bouchet, 2001</small>
- Phymorhynchus castaneus <small>(Dall, 1896)</small> - type species
- Phymorhynchus chevreuxi <small>(Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897)</small>
- Phymorhynchus cingulatus <small>(Dall, 1890)</small>
- Phymorhynchus cingulatus <small>Warén & Bouchet, 2009</small>: secondary homonym of Phymorhynchus cingulatus <small>(Dall, 1890)</small>
- Phymorhynchus clarinda <small>(Dall, 1908)</small>
- Phymorhynchus coseli <small>Warén & Bouchet, 2009</small>
- Phymorhynchus hyfifluxi <small>Beck, L., 1996</small>
- Phymorhynchus major <small>Waren & Bouchet, 2001</small>
- Phymorhynchus moskalevi <small>Sysoev & Kantor, 1995</small>
- Phymorhynchus oculatus <small>Zhang, S-Q. & Zhang, S-P. 2017</small>
- Phymorhynchus ovatus <small>Warén & Bouchet, 2001</small>
- Phymorhynchus speciosus <small>Olsson, 1971</small>
- Phymorhynchus starmeri <small>Okutani & Ohta, 1993</small>
- Phymorhynchus sulciferus <small>(Bush, 1893)</small>
- Phymorhynchus turris <small>Okutani & Iwasaki, 2003</small>
- Phymorhynchus wareni <small>Sysoev & Kantor, 1995</small>
- Phymorhynchus n. sp. "CIR"
- Phymorhynchus n. sp. "SWIR"
Species brought into synonymy:
- Phymorhynchus argeta <small>(Dall, 1908)</small>: synonym of Xanthodaphne argeta <small>(Dall, 1890)</small>
- Phymorhynchus oceanica <small>(Dall, 1908)</small>: synonym of Cryptomella oceanica <small>(Dall, 1908)</small>
- Phymorhynchus oceanicus <small>(Dall, 1908)</small>: synonym of Cryptomella oceanica <small>(Dall, 1908)</small>
- Phymorhynchus tenuis <small>Okutani, 1966</small> : synonym of Pararetifusus tenuis <small>(Okutani, 1966)</small> (original combination)
A new species described by Warén & Bouchet in 2009 under the name Phymorhynchus cingulata from methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River is a secondary homonym. It will be newly described under different name in the future.
References
- Dall W. H. (1908). "Reports on the Dredging Operations off the West Coast of Central America to the Galapagos to the West Coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. R. Tanner, U. S. N., Commanding, XXXVII and Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., Commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 43(6): 205-487 + plates. page 258
- Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90.
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