Comitas galatheae, common name the galatheae turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies[1]
| Comitas galatheae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Comitas |
| Species: | C. galatheae
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| Binomial name | |
| Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 105 mm.
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off the Aru Islands, eastern Indonesia and Western Australia
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433340 on 2018-06-10
- Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324
- Kosuge, S 1986. Report of the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia (Gastropoda) (1). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(5): 80-90
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
- Sysoev, A.V. 1997. Mollusca Gastropoda: new deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (N.S.) [1993-2016] série A, Zoologie 172: 325–355
External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Comitas galatheae". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- Biolib.cz: Comitas galatheae
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