Paracomitas

Paracomitas is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Paracomitas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Paracomitas
Powell, 1942
Type species
† Surcula castlecliffensis (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1919)
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Macrosinus Beu, 1970
  • Paracomitas (Macrosinus) Beu, 1970 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Paracomitas (Paracomitas) Powell, 1942 · accepted, alternate representation

Description

The genus Paracomitas has a carinate protoconch which lies in the same cone as the spire, thus differing from typical Comitas in which the protoconch is noncarinate, bulbous and tilted. Although the type of Comitas, C. oamarutica (Suter), is Drillia-like in the ornamentation of its spire, some species referred to Comitas by Powell on the basis of the protoconch, such as Comitas allani Powell, are similar in adult sculpture to Paracomitas. The protoconch of the species here referred to Paracomitas is small and appears to be slightly tilted, and the last quarter-turn or less is slightly angulate, but not definitely carinate.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Paracomitas include:

Alternate representations
  • Paracomitas (Macrosinus) Beu, 1970 represented as Paracomitas Powell, 1942
  • Paracomitas (Macrosinus) haumuria Beu, 1979 represented as Paracomitas haumuria Beu, 1979
Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Paracomitas Powell, 1942. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 June 2012.
  2. MacNeil F.S. (1960), The Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa; U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 339, 1-148, 1960
  3. Paracomitas augusta (Murdock & Suter, 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  4. Paracomitas undosa (Schepman, 1913). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  5. Paracomitas gypsata (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
  • 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
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