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 Dall, 1896W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43
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)Bouchet, P. (2010). Phymorhynchus cingulatus (Dall, 1890). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434618 on 2011-01-22 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 & Ohta, 1993 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 Xanthodaphne argeta (Dall, 1890) Phymorhynchus oceanica (Dall, 1908): synonym of Cryptomella oceanica (Dall, 1908) Phymorhynchus oceanicus (Dall, 1908): synonym of Cryptomella oceanica (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 methane seeps in deep water off the Congo RiverWarén 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 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.
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
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae