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Comitas rex

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Comitas rex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. rex
Binomial name
Comitas rex
Sysoev, 1997

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 87 mm, its diameter 27.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia.

References

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas rex Sysoev, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433366 on 2018-06-10
  • Sysoev, A., 1997. - Mollusca Gastropoda: New deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 172: 325-35
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris
  • Gastropods.com: Comitas rex
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Biolib.cz: Comitas rex