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Comitas galatheae

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Comitas galatheae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. galatheae
Binomial name
Comitas galatheae
Powell, 1969

Comitas galatheae, common name the galatheae turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 105 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Aru Islands, eastern Indonesia and Western Australia

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433340 on 2018-06-10
  • 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
  • Kosuge, S 1986. Report of the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia (Gastropoda) (1). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(5): 80-90
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Sysoev, A.V. 1997. Mollusca Gastropoda: new deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (N.S.) [1993-2016] série A, Zoologie 172: 325–355
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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • "Comitas galatheae". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  • Biolib.cz: Comitas galatheae