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).

Published as part of Oliverio, Marco, 2009, Diversity of Coralliophilinae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Muricidae) at Austral Islands (South Pacific), pp. 759-789 in Zoosystema 31 (4) on page 781, DOI: 10.5252/z2009n4a2, http://zenodo.org/record/4520186