Typhlosyrinx Thiele, 1925

Type species. Pleurotoma (Leucosyrinx) vepallida Martens, 1902 (figures 5–7), by original designation.

Description. Shell rather large, adults about 40 mm high on average and up to 57 mm, with high spire, capacious last whorl and short canal. Protoconch with diagonally cancellated sculpture when multispiral (known in a single species). Axial sculpture of low-set ribs below whorl periphery on spire whorls only. Sinus occupying subsutural ramp, rather shallow and broad. Operculum absent. Radular teeth medium-sized, with barbed blade and short basal part.