Lophiotoma leucotropis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)

Li, Baoquan & Li, Xinzheng, 2008, Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas, Zootaxa 1778, pp. 1-25 : 19

Lophiotoma leucotropis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)

(Pl. 3, fig. 8)

Pleurotoma leucotropis Adams & Reeve, 1850: 40 , pl. 10, fig. 7.

Lophiotoma leucotropis . — Powell 1964: 312, color pl. 175, figs. 4, 5, pl. 242.

Material examined. Yellow Sea. 33 spms, CN B-20, 32 °00’N, 124°30’E, muddy sand, 47 m, AT, 31. V. 1992. ECS. 2 spms, CN 53-743, Kanmen, Zhejiang Province, intertidal zone, 14. VI. 1953; 1 spm, CN 57- 892, Dongshan, Fujian Province, intertidal zone, 18. IV. 1957; 1 spm, CN 57-810, Xiamen, Fujian Province, intertidal zone, 5. IV. 1957; 8 spms, CN 57-711, Pingtan, Fujian Province, intertidal zone, 21. III. 1957; 1 spm, CN G-6, Changjiang River Estuary, mud, 58 m, 16. IX. 1985. SCS. 1spm, Shangchuan, Guangdong Province, intertidal zone, 16. I. 1956; 11 spms, CN 54-668, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, intertidal zone, 10. XI. 1954; 5 spms, CN 57-966, Nan’ao, Guangdong Province, intertidal zone, 1. I. 1957; 1 spm, CN 55-902, Xinchun, Hannan Island, intertidal zone, 24. XII. 1955; 3 spms, CN K246B-11, 18 °00’N, 106°50’E, 19 m, mudy fine sand, AT, 14 VII. 1960; 4 spms, CN S181B-9, 23 °15’N, 117°00’E, 24.7 m, fine sand, AT, 5. I. 1960. Beibu Gulf. 1 spm, 221B-3, 19 °00’N, 105°45’E, 14.2 m, muddy sand, 19. V. 1960; 1 spm, X74 B-61, 19 °00’N, 105°45’E, 12.8 m, muddy sand, 11. II. 1960; 5 spms, CN y38B13-33, 21 °15’N, 108°06’E, 28.5 m, mudy sand, AT, 11. XII. 1959.

Measurements (mm).

Distribution. Yellow Sea, East and South China Seas; Japan, Philippines.