Comitas trailli
| Comitas trailli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Comitas |
| Species: | C. trailli
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| Binomial name | |
| Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
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Comitas trailli is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The length of the shell attains 28 mm, its diameter 10 mm.
The fusiform shell has an acute spire. The whorls are slightly carinated with fine spiral lines and transverse ribs anteriorly. The posterior part is smooth. The aperture is ovate. The siphonal canal is rather produced. The body whorl is shorter than the spire.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off South Island where fossils have been found in Tertiary strata.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433375 on 2018-06-10
- ^ Hutton F. W. 1873. Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp
- Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp. 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp. 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links
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- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995
- Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
- Auckland War Memorial Museum: Comitas trailli
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