Comitas lurida

Comitas lurida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Comitas lurida
Drawing of a shell of Comitas lurida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. lurida
Binomial name
Comitas lurida
(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma lurida Adams & Reeve, 1850 (original combination)

Description

The fusiform shell consists of ten whorls. The angular whorls are crossed by delicate, spiral striae and longitudinal obtuse ribs. The whorls are tuberculated in the middle, the tubercles developing from more or less indistinct oblique folds or ribs, everywhere closely encircled by striae. The dark fulvescent shell shows a banded white zone that passes over the nodules upon the angle in the center of each whorl. The sinus is rather large.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the East China Sea and in the South China Sea

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas lurida (Adams & Reeve, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433349 on 2018-06-04
  2. Arthur Adams (1850) The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, (1843-1846); London :Reeve and Benham,1850 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Adams A & Reeve L. Mollusca. Part 2. In: Adams A, editor. The zoology of the voyage of the H. M. S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. B., F. R. A. S., F. G. S., during the years 1843–1846. London: Reeve & Benham; 1850. pp. 25–41. pls 10–17
  • Powell, 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-pacific. Part 2: The subfamily Turriculinae; Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 2.10 (1969): 207-416.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Biolib.cz: Comitas lurida
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