Comitas declivis
Appearance
Comitas declivis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Comitas |
Species: | C. declivis
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Binomial name | |
Comitas declivis A.W.B. Powell, 1931
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Comitas declivis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 19 mm, its diameter 6.3 mm.
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Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand. Fossils have been in Lower Pliocene strata (Waitotaran) near the mouth of the Waihi stream, Hāwera.
References
- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas declivis Powell, 1931 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831461 on 2018-06-28
- Powell, Arthur William Baden. "Waitotaran faunules of the Wanganui System and descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the New Zealand Pliocene." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 1.2 (1931): 85-112.
- Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
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