Comitas kamakurana

Comitas kamakurana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1][2]

Comitas kamakurana
Apertural view of a shell of Comitas kamakurana (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. kamakurana
Binomial name
Comitas kamakurana
(Pilsbry, 1895)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma kamakurana Pilsbry, 1895
  • Turricula kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1895):

Description

The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 75 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell is much elongated. The siphonal canal is nearly as long as the spire . The color of the shell is dull brown, with an ill-defined light band around the middle. The spire is attenuated. The whorls are very convex, almost angular, concave above and nearly smooth, appressed at the suture. The shell is sculptured with numerous short vertical folds which do not extend on the body whorl below the level of the upper angle of aperture, and become obsolete on its latter half; and numerous subequal, crowded spiral cords throughout. The aperture is nearly half the length of shell, long-elliptical above, passing into a long, open, straight siphonal canal below. The anal sinus is wide and rather shallow. The outer lip is gently arched forward.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines and Japan.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Comitas kamakurana. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435106 on 2016-06-29
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. H. Pilsbry (1895), Catalogue of the marine mollusks of Japan; Detroit, 1895 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Sysoev, A.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Gastéropodes turriformes (Gastropoda: Conoidea) nouveaux ou peu connus du Sud-Ouest Pacifique = New and uncommon turriform gastropods (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the South-West Pacific. in: Bouchet, P. et al. (Ed.) Tropical deep-sea benthos. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 185: 271-320.
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