Biology:Domiporta

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Domiporta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.[1] First described in 1970 by Walter Oliver Cernohorsky, the genus is typically found in shallow to bathypelagic waters in the Indo-Pacific. Domiporta can be identified due to their distinctive radula.

Description

Members of Domiporta have a shell ranging between 15–65 mm (0.59–2.56 in) in size, and are fusiform, either elongated or ovate. They have a high spire, short aprtture, teleochonches that have been 5-10 convex whorls, a protoconch that has 1.5-4 smooth nuclear whorls, which range in colour between white, violet or transluscent. The radula of Comiporta is uniquely patterned.[2][3]

Taxonomy

The taxon was first described as a subgenus of Cancilla in 1970 by New Zealand malacologist Walter Oliver Cernohorsky, who assigned Domiporta filaris, which has originally been described as Voluta filaris by Carl Linnaeus in 1771, as the type species.[2] Domiporta was first identified as "group 10" by Alfred Hands Cooke in 1920, who noticed similarities between the species due to their unique radula. Both Alfred James Peile in 1936 and Cernohorsky in 1966 recognised the distinctiveness of Domiporta, but it was not until 1970 when Cernohorsky formally described Domiporta as a taxon.[2] By 1977, Cernohorsky had begun to describe Domiporta as a genus,[4] and in 1989, Domiporta was described as a genus by Vaught, Abbott and Boss.[5]

Phylogenetic analysis places Domiporta in the core of the Mitridae family group in Clade M-II, with the closest relatives being members of the genera Roseomitra, Fusidomiporta and Profundimitra, with more distant relatives including Quasimitra, Pseudonebularia and Ziba.[6][3]

Distribution

Domiporta are found in tropical Indo-Pacific regions, South Africa, southeastern Australia and the Kermadec Islands, and potentially West Africa. Fossils of the group date back to at least the Miocene.[2][3]

Ecology

Domiporta tend to live in shallow subtidal water, with some members living in the bathypelagic zone.[2][3]

Species

Species within the genus Domiporta include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Domiporta. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 September 2025.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4  , Wikidata Q115112302
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3  , Wikidata Q104454683
  4. ↑  , Wikidata Q58677058
  5. ↑ Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. Melbourne: American Malacologists. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. 
  6. ↑  , Wikidata Q54795325
  7. ↑ Huang, S.-I. (2011). "Calcimitra, a new genus of deep-water Mitridae (Gastropoda: Mitridae) with the description of five new species from Taiwan and the Philippines". Visaya 3 (4): 88–97. 

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