Cominella

Cominella is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[3][4][2]

Cominella
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Recent, 27.3–0.0 Ma
Cominella quoyana quoyana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Cominella
Gray, 1850[1]
Type species
Buccinum testudineum
Bruguière, 1789<
Synonyms[2]
  • Acominia Finlay, 1926
  • † Cominella (Austrocominella) Ihering, 1907 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Cominella) Gray, 1850 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Eucominia) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Josepha) Tenison Woods, 1878 (accepted, alternate representation)
  • Cominella (Procominula) Finlay, 1926 (accepted, alternate representation)
  • Eucominia Finlay, 1926
  • Zephos Finlay, 1926

Description
A live Cominella adspersa at Castlepoint, New Zealand.

Cominella is a genus of medium-sized buccinoid marine snails.[5][6] All species are carnivores.[7][8]

Distribution

Many extant species are endemic to coastal waters off of New Zealand[4][5][6] and Australia (including Norfolk Island).[3] There is a rich fossil record in New Zealand.[9] Species are common within the intertidal and subtidal zone.[7][10]

Evolution

Cominella is currently classified within the family Buccinidae, although it has also been classified within the alternative families Buccinulidae and Cominellidae.[3][4][5][6][8]

Ancestors of Cominella species in Australia likely migrated from New Zealand via long-distance egg rafting, despite taxa exhibiting direct development.[3] Cominella is closely related to the genus Pareuthria.[3]

Species

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Cominella include:[10]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cominella accuminata (Hutton, 1893): synonym of Cominella quoyana accuminata (Hutton, 1893)
  • Cominella acutispira (Sowerby, 1821): synonym of Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848)
  • Cominella albolirata (Tenison Woods, 1879): synonym of Haustrum vinosum (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Cominella alfredensis (Bartsch, 1915): synonym of Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
  • Cominella angusta (G. B. Sowerby III, 1886): synonym of Clathranachis angusta (G. B. Sowerby III, 1886)
  • Cominella bouveti (Thiele, 1912): synonym of Notoficula bouveti (Thiele, 1912)
  • Cominella capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844): synonym of Afrocominella capensis (Dunker, 1844)
  • Cominella cincta (Röding, 1798): synonym of Burnupena cincta (Röding, 1798)
  • Cominella densesculpta (Martens, 1885): synonym of Chlanidota densesculpta (Martens, 1885)
  • Cominella dunkeri (Kobelt, 1878): synonym of Burnupena cincta cincta (Röding, 1798)
  • Cominella eburneum [sic]: synonym of Cominella eburnea (Reeve, 1846)
  • Cominella elongata (Dunker, 1857): synonym of Afrocominella capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844)
  • Cominella euthriaformis (Powell, 1929): synonym of Cominella quoyana (A. Adams, 1855)
  • Cominella filicea (Crosse & Fischer, 1864): synonym of Cominella eburnea var. filicea (Crosse & Fischer, 1864): synonym of Cominella eburnea (Reeve, 1846)
  • Cominella fortilirata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1913): synonym of Aulacofusus periscelidus (Dall, 1891)
  • † Cominella fueguensis (Ihering, 1907): synonym of † Austrocominella fueguensis (Ihering, 1907)
  • Cominella fuscopicta (Turton, 1932): synonym of Vaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860)
  • Cominella glandiforme [sic]: synonym of Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
  • Cominella haroldi (Powell, 1946): synonym of Cominella nassoides haroldi (Powell, 1946)
  • Cominella koperbergi (K. Martin, 1933): synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
  • Cominella maculata (Gray, 1835): synonym of Cominella adspersa (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Cominella marlboroughensis (Powell, 1946): synonym of Cominella elegantula (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)
  • Cominella nodicincta (Martens, 1878): synonym of Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides nodicincta (Martens, 1878) represented as Cominella nassoides nodicincta (Martens, 1878)
  • Cominella porcata (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Cominella cincta (Röding, 1798): synonym of Burnupena cincta (Röding, 1798)
  • Cominella prolongata (E. A. Smith, 1899): synonym of Fusinus ocelliferus (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Cominella puncturata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1886): synonym of Vaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860)
  • Cominella retifera (K. Martin, 1933): synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
  • Cominella semisulcata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892): synonym of Burnupena cincta cincta (Röding, 1798)
  • Cominella subrostrata (W. Wood, 1828): synonym of Nicema subrostrata (W. Wood, 1828)
  • Cominella sulcata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1892): synonym of Maorimorpha sulcata (Sowerby III, 1892)
  • Cominella translucida (Turton, 1932): synonym of Burnupena pubescens (Küster, 1858)
  • Cominella turtoni (Bartsch, 1915): synonym of Afrocominella turtoni (Bartsch, 1915)
  • Cominella unifasciata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1886): synonym of Nucella castanea (Küster, 1886)
  • Cominella vestita (Martens, 1878): synonym of Chlanidota vestita (Martens, 1878)

References
  1. Gray (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 72.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2011). Cominella Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196902 on 2011-04-19
  3. Donald, Kirsten M.; Winter, David J.; Ashcroft, Anna L.; Spencer, Hamish 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. 115 (2): 315–332. doi:10.1111/bij.12529.
  4. Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
  5. Fleming, Angela M.; Dohner, Melanie; Phillips, Nicole E.; Ritchie, Peter A. (2018). "Genetic connectivity among populations of two congeneric direct-developing whelks varies across spatial scales". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 52 (1): 100–117. doi:10.1080/00288330.2017.1340899.
  6. Dohner, Melanie; Phillips, Nicole E.; Ritchie, Peter A. (2018). "Fine-scale genetic structure across a New Zealand disjunction for the direct-developing intertidal whelk Cominella maculosa (Gastropoda: Buccinidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123 (2): 593–602. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx167.
  7. Willan, R.C., de C. Cook, S., Spencer, H.G., Creese, R.G., O’Shea, S., Jackson, G.D. Phylum Mollusca. In: de C. Cook, S.C. (eds.), New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1, 401 – 405. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ISBN 978-1877257-60-5
  8. Gemmell, Michael R.; Trewick, Steven A.; Crampton, James S.; Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Daly, Elizabeth E.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Beu, Alan G.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2018). "Genetic structure and shell shape variation within a rocky shore whelk suggest both diverging and constraining selection with gene flow". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125 (4): 827–843. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/bly142.
  9. Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
  10. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  11. Walton, Kerry; Marshall, Bruce A.; Phillips, Nicole E.; Verry, Alexander J.F.; Ritchie, Peter A. (2019). "Phylogeography of the New Zealand whelks Cominella maculosa and C. virgata (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Buccinidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 126 (1): 178–202. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/bly174.

Further reading
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Walton, K., Marshall, B. A., Phillips, N. E., Verry, A. J. F., & Ritchey, P. A. (2019). Phylogeography of the New Zealand whelks Cominella maculosa and C. virgata (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Buccinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126: 178-202
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