Comitas eurina

Comitas eurina
	Original image of a shell of Comitas eurina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Comitas
Species:	C. eurina
Binomial name
	Comitas eurina; E. A. Smith, 1899
Synonyms[1]
	Pleurotoma (Surcula) eurina E. A. Smith, 1899 (original combination)

Comitas eurina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 31 mm and 62 mm.

The white, slender shell has a fusiform shape It contains 9 -10 whorls. The whorls are angulated in the middle, concave in the upper portion and convex below. The whorls are bordered below the suture with a thickened margin. The longitudinal ribs are nodose. The plicae are delicate and oblique. The body whorl contains about 16 oblique ribs that become in the lower part attenuate and then almost obsolete. The white aperture measures about 3/7 the total length. The outer lip is tenuous and widely sinuate. The smooth columella is almost upright. The broad siphonal canal is oblique.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar, Borneo and south of India at a depth of 878 m.

References

WoRMS (2015). Comitas eurina. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433338 on 2017-02-05
Melvill J.C. 1899. Notes on the Mollusca of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, mostly dredged by Mr F. W. Townsend, with descriptions of twenty-seven species. ; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. 4 , s. 7; London, 1899 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

E.A. Smith, Illustrations of the Zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying Steamer Investigator. Part I: Mollusca (1897-1908)
Cernohorsky, Walter O. "Taxonomic notes on some deep-water Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Malagasy Republic." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum (1987): 123-134.

External links

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
"Comitas eurina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

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[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2015). Comitas eurina. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433338 on 2017-02-05

[2] Melvill J.C. 1899. Notes on the Mollusca of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, mostly dredged by Mr F. W. Townsend, with descriptions of twenty-seven species. ; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. 4 , s. 7; London, 1899 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.