Comitas

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Comitas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Comitas
Finlay, 1926
Species

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Comitas is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turridae.

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[edit] Distribution

Widely distributed in the deep cooler waters of the Southern Hemisphere.

[edit] Description

Shells are moderately large, solid, elongate-fusiform, with a tall spire, and a rather long, flexed, unnotched anterior canal. The protoconch is papillate, of two smooth whorls, carinate or subcarinate over the last whorl. The post-nuclear whorls have a weakly submargined suture, a narrow shoulder sulcus, followed by protractively oblique axials, overridden by spiral cords or lirae. The sinus is U-shaped, deep, on the lower half of the shoulder sulcus. The operculum is leaf-shaped, with a terminal nucleus. The radula is wishbone-type of paired marginals, with the distal limb detached.

[edit] Species is in the genus Comitas

  • Comitas aequatorialis (Thiele, 1925)
  • Comitas albicincta (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
  • Comitas anteridion (Watson, 1881)
  • Comitas arcana (E. A. Smith, 1899)
  • Comitas bolognai
  • Comitas breviplicata (E. A. Smith, 1899)
  • Comitas chuni (von Martens, 1902)
  • Comitas claviforma Kosuge, 1992
  • Comitas ensyuensis (Shikama & Hayashi in Shikama, 1977)
  • Comitas erica (Thiele, 1925)
  • Comitas eurina (E. A. Smith, 1899)
  • Comitas exstructa (von Martens, 1903)
  • Comitas fusiformis
  • Comitas gagei
  • Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969
  • Comitas granuloplicata Kosuge, 1992
  • Comitas halicyria (Melvill, 1904)
  • Comitas hayashii (Shikama, 1977)
  • Comitas kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872)
  • Comitas kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1895)
  • Comitas kirai Powell, 1969
  • Comitas kuroharai (Oyama, 1962)
  • Comitas laura (Thiele, 1925)
  • Comitas lurida (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
  • Comitas luzonica Powell, 1969
  • Comitas malayana (Thiele, 1925)
  • Comitas margaritae (E. A. Smith, 1904)
  • Comitas melvilli (Schepman, 1913)
  • Comitas monile
  • Comitas murrawolga (Garrard, 1961)
  • Comitas nana
  • Comitas oahuensis Powell, 1969
  • Comitas obtusigemmata (Schepman, 1913)
  • Comitas onokeana King, 1933
  • Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956
  • Comitas opulenta (Thiele, 1925)
  • Comitas oregonensis
  • Comitas pachycercus Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001
  • Comitas pagodaeformis (Schepman, 1913)
  • Comitas peelae Bozzetti, 1993
  • Comitas raybaudii Bozzetti, 1994
  • Comitas rex Sysoev, 1997
  • Comitas rotundata (Watson, 1881)
  • Comitas saldanhae (Barnard, 1958)
  • Comitas spencerensis
  • Comitas stolida (Hinds, 1843)
  • Comitas subsuturalis (von Martens, 1902)
  • Comitas suluensis Powell, 1969
  • Comitas symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
  • Comitas terrisae
  • Comitas thisbe (E. A. Smith, 1906)
  • Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
  • Comitas undosa (Schepman, 1913)
  • Comitas waihaoensis
  • Comitas yukiae (Shikama, 1962)

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