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Comitas kamakurana

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Comitas kamakurana
Apertural view of a shell of Comitas kamakurana (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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C. kamakurana
Binomial name
Comitas kamakurana
(Pilsbry, 1895)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma kamakurana Pilsbry, 1895
  • Turricula kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1895):

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

Description

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

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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.