Comitas

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

Distribution

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

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.

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)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• GBIF
• ZipCodeZoo

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