Biology:Comitas murrawolga
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Comitas murrawolga | |
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| Shell of Comitas murrawolga (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
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. murrawolga
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| Binomial name | |
| Comitas murrawolga (Garrard, 1961)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Turricula murrawolga Garrard, 1961 (basionym) | |
Comitas murrawolga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 76 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines , New Caledonia and Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tucker, J. (2010). Comitas murrawolga (Garrard, 1961). 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=433354 on 2012-04-05
- Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38
- Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6
- 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
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
- Sysoev A. & Bouchet P. (2001) New and uncommon turriform gastropods (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the South-West Pacific. In: P. Bouchet & B.A. Marshall (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 271-320
External links
- Beechey, D. 2004. Comitas murrawolga (Garrard, 1961).
- Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q3716540 entry
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