Leptogyra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melanodrymiidae, belonging to the clade Neomphalina.Hess H., Beck F., Gensler H., Kano Y., Kiel S. & Haszprunar G. (2008). "Microanatomy, shell structure and molecular phylogeny of Leptogyra, Xyleptogyra and Leptogyropsis (Gastropoda: Neomphalida: Melanodrymiidae) from sunken wood ". Journal of Molluscan Studies 74(4): 383-401. .Bouchet, P. (2011). Leptogyra Bush, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159897 on 24 May 2012
This genus was originally placed in Skeneidae, then in Skeneinae within Turbinidae.Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506.
Species Species within the genus Leptogyra include: Leptogyra alaskana Bartsch, 1910 Leptogyra bujnitzkii (Gorbunov, 1946) Leptogyra constricta B. A. Marshall, 1988 Leptogyra costellata Warén & Bouchet, 2009 Leptogyra eritmeta Bush, 1897 Leptogyra inconspicua Bush, 1897 Leptogyra inflata Warén & Bouchet, 1993 Leptogyra patula B. A. Marshall, 1988 Leptogyra verrilli Bush, 1897 Species brought into synonymy Leptogyra africana Bartsch, 1915: synonym of Cirsonella africana (Bartsch, 1915) (original combination)
References
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
Bush, K. (1897). Revision of the marine gastropods referred to Cyclostrema, Adeorbis, Vitrinella and related genera with descriptions of some new genera and species belonging to the Atlantic fauna of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10: 97-144