Cominella otagoensis

Cominella otagoensis
Shell of Cominella otagoensis (specimen at the Auckland War Memorial Museum)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cominellidae
Genus:	Cominella
Species:	C. otagoensis
Binomial name
Cominella otagoensis (Finlay, 1927)
Synonyms
Cominella (Eucominia) otagoensis (Finlay, 1926)· accepted, alternate representation Zephos otagoensis Finlay, 1927

Cominella otagoensis is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae, the true whelks.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
• Donald K.M, Winter D.J., Ashcroft A.L. & Spencer H.G. (2015). Phylogeography of the whelk genus Cominella (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) suggests long-distance counter-current dispersal of a direct developer. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London. 115: 315-332

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