Comitas

Comitas is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Comitas
Shell of Comitas peelae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Comitas Finlay, 1926
Type species
† Surcula oamarutica Suter, 1917 (type by original designation)
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Turricula (Comitas) Finlay, 1926

Species and subspecies

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Comitas include:

† Comitas abnormis L. C. King, 1933 Comitas aequatorialis (Thiele, 1925) Comitas albicincta (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) † Comitas aldingensis Powell, 1944 † Comitas allani Powell, 1942 Comitas anteridion (Watson, 1881) Comitas arcana (E. A. Smith, 1899) † Comitas bilix Marwick, 1931 Comitas bolognai Bozzetti, 2001 Comitas breviplicata (E. A. Smith, 1899) Comitas chuni (von Martens, 1902) Comitas crenularoides (Pritchard, 1896) Comitas curviplicata Sysoev, 1996 † Comitas declivis Powell, 1931 Comitas elegans Sysoev, 1996 Comitas ensyuensis (Shikama & Hayashi in Shikama, 1977) Comitas erica (Thiele, 1925) Comitas eurina (E. A. Smith, 1899) Comitas exstructa (von Martens, 1904) † Comitas fusiformis (Hutton, 1877) † Comitas gagei Maxwell, 1988 Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969 Comitas granuloplicata Kosuge, 1992 Comitas halicyria (Melvill, 1904) Comitas hayashii (Shikama, 1977) Comitas ilariae Bozzetti, 1991 † Comitas imperfecta L. C. King, 1933 Comitas kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872) † Comitas kaipara Laws, 1939 Comitas kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1895) Comitas kayalensis Dey, 1962 † Comitas kenneti Beu, 1970 Comitas kirai Powell, 1969 Comitas kuroharai (Oyama, 1962) † Comitas latescens (Hutton, 1873) † Comitas latiaxialis (P. Marshall, 1918) Comitas laura (Thiele, 1925) Comitas lurida (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) Comitas makiyamai Shuto, 1961 Comitas malayana (Thiele, 1925) Comitas margaritae (E. A. Smith, 1904) Comitas melvilli (Schepman, 1913) Comitas miyazakiensis Shuto, 1961

Comitas murrawolga (Garrard, 1961) † Comitas nana Maxwell, 1988 Comitas oahuensis Powell, 1969 Comitas obliquicosta (Martens, 1901) Comitas obtusigemmata (Schepman, 1913) Comitas onokeana King, 1933 Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956 Comitas opulenta (Thiele, 1925) Comitas pachycercus Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001 Comitas pagodaeformis (Schepman, 1913) Comitas parvifusiformis Li & Li, 2008 Comitas paupera (Watson, 1881) Comitas peelae Bozzetti, 1993 Comitas powelli Rehder & Ladd, 1973 † Comitas pseudoclarae A.W.B. Powell, 1944 Comitas raybaudii Bozzetti, 1994 † Comitas recticosta (Bellardi, 1847) [2] Comitas rex Sysoev, 1997 Comitas rotundata (Watson, 1881) Comitas saldanhae (Barnard, 1958) Comitas saudesae Cossignani, 2018 † Comitas silicicola Darragh, 2017 † Comitas sobrina (M. Yokoyama, 1923 ) † Comitas sobrinaeformis S. Nomura, 1937 † Comitas spencerensis E.J. Moore, 1962 Comitas stolida (Hinds, 1843) † Comitas subcarinapex Powell, 1942 Comitas subsuturalis (von Martens, 1901) Comitas suluensis Powell, 1969 Comitas suratensis (Thiele, 1925) † Comitas terrisae Vella, 1954 Comitas thisbe (E. A. Smith, 1906) † Comitas torquayensis Powell, 1944 Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873) Comitas vezo Bozzetti, 2001 Comitas vezzaroi Cossignani, 2016 † Comitas waihaoensis Powell, 1942 † Comitas williamsi Marwick, 1965 Comitas wynyardensis (G.B. Pritchard, 1896) † Comitas yokoyamai K. Oyama, 1954

Synonyms

• Comitas aemula Angas, 1877: synonym of Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
• Comitas claviforma Kosuge, 1992 is a basionym for Leucosyrinx claviforma (Kosuge, 1992)[3]
• Comitas kaderleyi Lischke, 1872: synonym of Comitas kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872)
• Comitas luzonica Powell, 1969: synonym of Leucosyrinx luzonica (Powell, 1969)
• Comitas subcorpulenta Smith, 1894: synonym of:Borsonia symbiotes subcorpulenta (Smith, 1894)
• Comitas symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891): synonym of Borsonia symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
• Comitas verrucosa Suter, 1899: synonym of Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
• Comitas yukiae (Shikama, 1962): synonym of Antiplanes yukiae (Shikama, 1962)

References

1. WoRMS (2010). Comitas Finlay, 1926. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432433 on 2011-07-10
2. Vera-Peláez, J. L. (2002). Revision de la familia Turridae, excepto Clavatulinae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) en el Plioceno de las cuencas de Estepona, Malaga y Velez Malaga (Malaga, S Espana) con la descripcion de 26 especies nuevas. Pliocenica. 2: 176-262
3. Tucker, J. (2009). Leucosyrinx claviforma (Kosuge, 1992). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434213 on 2010-04-16

• Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
• L. Bozzetti, Description of a new species of the genus Comitas Finlay, 1926 from the Philippines and Reunion (Gastropoda, Turridae); Bull. Inst. Malac. Tokyo 3 (1): 1-3 (1993)