Diversity of Coralliophilinae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Muricidae) at Austral Islands (South Pacific) Author Oliverio, Marco Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Rome University, “ La Sapienza ”, Viale dell’Università 32, I- 00185 Rome (Italy) marco. oliverio @ uniroma 1. it text Zoosystema 2009 2009-12-31 31 4 759 789 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/z2009n4a2 journal article 8158 10.5252/z2009n4a2 e6fe093f-6002-4668-ae64-b656f2f7acfc 1638-9387 4520186 Genus Leptoconchus Rüppell, 1834 Leptoconchus Rüppell, 1834: 105 . Magilopsis G. B. Sowerby III, 1919: 77 (type species by original designation: Leptococonchus lamarckii Deshayes, 1863 ; Recent, Indo-Pacific). TYPE SPECIES. — Leptoconchus striatus Rüppell, 1835 (by subsequent monotypy of Rüppell 1835 ); Recent, Red Sea. REMARKS Leptoconchus was introduced ( Rüppell 1834 ) without associated species. Leptoconchus striatus Rüppell, 1835 is the type species by subsequent monotypy ( ICZN 1999 : Arts 67.2.2, 69.3). Massin (1982 , 1983 , 1990 , 1992 , 2000 ) studied the ecology and taxonomy of the species in this group. A revision of the Leptoconchus species is currently being undertaken by Dr Arjan Gittenberger at the Leiden Museum of Natural History (Naturalis).