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Comitas

Comitas
Shell of Comitas peelae
Scientific 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
See text
Synonyms[1]
Turricula (Comitas) Finlay, 1926

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

Species and subspecies[edit]

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

Synonyms

• Comitas aemula Angas, 1877: synonym of Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
• Comitas claviforma Kosuge, 1992 is a basionym for Leucosyrinx claviforma (Kosuge, 1992)^[3]
• Comitas kaderleyi Lischke, 1872: synonym of Comitas kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872)
• Comitas luzonica Powell, 1969: synonym of Leucosyrinx luzonica (Powell, 1969)
• Comitas subcorpulenta Smith, 1894: synonym of:Borsonia symbiotes subcorpulenta (Smith, 1894)
• Comitas symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891): synonym of Borsonia symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
• Comitas undosa Schepman, 1913: synonym of Paracomitas undosa (Schepman, 1913)
• Comitas verrucosa Suter, 1899: synonym of Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
• Comitas yukiae (Shikama, 1962): synonym of Antiplanes yukiae (Shikama, 1962)

References[edit]

• 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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External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Comitas.

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
• L. Bozzetti, Description of a new species of the genus Comitas Finlay, 1926 from the Philippines and Reunion (Gastropoda, Turridae); Bull. Inst. Malac. Tokyo 3 (1): 1-3 (1993) Archived 2022-05-23 at the Wayback Machine