Comitas is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Comitas
Shell of Comitas peelae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Finlay, 1926
Type species
Surcula oamarutica Suter, 1917 (type by original designation)
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Turricula (Comitas) Finlay, 1926

Species and subspecies edit

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Comitas include:

Synonyms

References edit

  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Comitas Finlay, 1926. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432433 on 2011-07-10
  2. ^ Vera-Peláez, J. L. (2002). Revision de la familia Turridae, excepto Clavatulinae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) en el Plioceno de las cuencas de Estepona, Malaga y Velez Malaga (Malaga, S Espana) con la descripcion de 26 especies nuevas. Pliocenica. 2: 176-262
  3. ^ Tucker, J. (2009). Leucosyrinx claviforma (Kosuge, 1992). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434213 on 2010-04-16
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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