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''Phymorhynchus'' is a
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sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
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Raphitomidae Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 39 ...
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Description

The fusiform shell is thin, smooth, or spirally sculptured. The axial
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is less conspicuous. The siphonal canal is nearly obsolete. The columella and outer lip is simple. The
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is wide, shallow and close to the suture. The animal is blind, with a distinct muzzle into which the
proboscis A proboscis () is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates, the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. In vertebrates, a proboscis is an elong ...
is retracted. The operculum is wanting. Type: ''Pleurotomella castanea'' Dall, 1896


Species

Species within the genus ''Phymorhynchus'' include: * † '' Phymorhynchus agina'' (Olsson, 1942) * '' Phymorhynchus alberti'' (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906) * '' Phymorhynchus buccinoides'' Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 * '' Phymorhynchus carinatus'' Waren & Bouchet, 2001 * '' Phymorhynchus castaneus'' (Dall, 1896) - type species * '' Phymorhynchus chevreuxi'' (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897) * '' Phymorhynchus cingulatus'' (Dall, 1890) * '' Phymorhynchus cingulatus'' Warén & Bouchet, 2009: secondary homonym of '' Phymorhynchus cingulatus'' (Dall, 1890) * '' Phymorhynchus clarinda'' (Dall, 1908) * '' Phymorhynchus coseli'' Warén & Bouchet, 2009 * '' Phymorhynchus hyfifluxi'' Beck, L., 1996 * '' Phymorhynchus major'' Waren & Bouchet, 2001 * '' Phymorhynchus moskalevi'' Sysoev & Kantor, 1995 * '' Phymorhynchus oculatus'' Zhang, S-Q. & Zhang, S-P. 2017 * '' Phymorhynchus ovatus'' Warén & Bouchet, 2001 * '' Phymorhynchus speciosus'' Olsson, 1971 * '' Phymorhynchus starmeri'' Okutani &
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* '' Phymorhynchus sulciferus'' (Bush, 1893) * '' Phymorhynchus turris'' Okutani & Iwasaki, 2003 * '' Phymorhynchus wareni'' Sysoev & Kantor, 1995 * ''Phymorhynchus'' n. sp. “CIR” * ''Phymorhynchus'' n. sp. “SWIR” ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Phymorhynchus argeta'' (Dall, 1908): synonym of ''
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'' (Dall, 1890) * ''Phymorhynchus oceanica'' (Dall, 1908): synonym of ''
Cryptomella oceanica ''Cryptomella'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned to a family within the superfamily Conoidea.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Cryptomella Finlay, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http:/ ...
'' (Dall, 1908) * ''Phymorhynchus oceanicus'' (Dall, 1908): synonym of ''
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'' (Dall, 1908) * ''Phymorhynchus tenuis'' Okutani, 1966 : synonym of '' Pararetifusus tenuis'' (Okutani, 1966) (original combination) A new species described by Warén & Bouchet in 2009 under the name ''Phymorhynchus cingulata'' from
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Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2009). "New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa". ''Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography'' 56(23): 2326-2349. is a secondary
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. 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
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, 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)
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* 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.


External links


Zhang, S-Q. & Zhang, S-P. 2017. A new species of the genus Phymorhynchus (Neogastropoda: Raphitomidae) from a hydrothermal vent in the Manus Back-Arc Basin. Zootaxa 4300(3): 441–444

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
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