Leptoconchus

Leptoconchus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails or coral shells.
Description
Shell : The thin shell is globosely pyriform, with a perforate axis. The umbilicus is partly concealed by the reflected inner lip. The spire is obtuse. The aperture is oblong, produced anteriorly into a wide subrecurved siphonal canal.
Animal: The mantle-margin is greatly thickened and fleshy. The tentacles are small, broad, and united at their bases. The eyes are small and black, on the outer side of the tentacles, near their tips. The foot is small, short, obtuse and rounded behind, with a thin, expanded, disk-like lobe in front, and the siphon is obsolete.
There is no operculum.
Species
The following species are currently accepted within Leptoconchus:
† Leptoconchus costatus (Chenu, 1843)
Leptoconchus cumingii MassDeshayes, 1863
Leptoconchus cyphastrae Massin, 1983
† Leptoconchus duvergieri (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1923)
Leptoconchus ellipticus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1823)
Leptoconchus expolitus (Shikama, 1963)
Leptoconchus inactiniformis A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus inalbechi A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus incrassa A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus incycloseris A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus infungites A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus ingrandifungi A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus ingranulosa A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus inlimax A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus inpileus A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus inpleuractis A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus inscruposa A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus inscutaria A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
† Leptoconchus intalpina A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus jaegeri Rolle, 1863
Leptoconchus lamarckii (Deshayes, 1863
Leptoconchus massini A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2011
Leptoconchus peronii (Lamarck, 1818)
Leptoconchus solidiusculus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1872)
Leptoconchus vangoethemi Massin, 1983
Taxa inquirenda
Leptoconchus cuvieri Deshayes, 1863
Leptoconchus djedah (Chenu, 1843)
Leptoconchus globulosus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1872)
Leptoconchus maillardi Deshayes, 1863
Leptoconchus noumeae Risbec, 1953
Leptoconchus rostratus A. Adams, 1864
Leptoconchus ruppelii Deshayes, 1863
Leptoconchus serratus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1872)
Leptoconchus tenuis (Chenu, 1843)
Species brought into synonymy include
Leptoconchus fimbriatus (A. Adams, 1852): synonym of Coralliophila fimbriata (A. Adams, 1852)
Leptoconchus lamarkii Deshayes, 1863: synonym of Leptoconchus lamarckii Deshayes, 1863 (incorrect original spelling)
Leptoconchus robillardi Liénard, 1870: synonym of Coralliophila robillardi (Liénard, 1870)
Leptoconchus schrenkii Lischke, 1871: synonym of Leptoconchus peronii (Lamarck, 1818)
Leptoconchus striatus Rüppell, 1835: synonym of Leptoconchus peronii (Lamarck, 1818)
References
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp
Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481-585. page(s): 557
External links
Rüppell E. (1835 ["1834"). Description of a new genus of pectinibranchiated gasteropodous Mollusca (Leptoconchus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2: 105-106.]
Sowerby, G. B., III. (1919). Notes on Magilus and its allies, substituting the generic name Magilopsis for Leptoconchus lamarcki, Deshayes. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 13(3-4): 75-77
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
A. & Gittenberger E. (2011) Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endoparasitic snails: sibling species of Leptoconchus (Gastropoda: Coralliophilidae) in corals. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 11: 21-41