Comitas kamakurana
| Comitas kamakurana | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Comitas kamakurana (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Comitas |
| Species: | C. kamakurana |
| Binomial name | |
| Comitas kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1895) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Comitas kamakurana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1] [2]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 75 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines and Japan.
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Comitas kamakurana. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435106 on 2016-06-29
- ↑ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
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