Cominella

Cominella
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Recent, 27.3–0.0 Ma
Cominella quoyana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Cominellidae
Genus: Cominella
Gray, 1850
Type species
Buccinum testudineum
Bruguière, 1789<
Synonyms
  • Acominia Finlay, 1926
  • † Cominella (Austrocominella) Ihering, 1907 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Cominella) Gray, 1850 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Eucominia) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Josepha) Tenison Woods, 1878 (accepted, alternate representation)
  • Cominella (Procominula) Finlay, 1926 (accepted, alternate representation)
  • Eucominia Finlay, 1926
  • Zephos Finlay, 1926

Cominella is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae.

Description

A live Cominella adspersa at Castlepoint, New Zealand.

Cominella is a genus of medium-sized buccinoid marine snails. All species are carnivores.

Distribution

Many extant species are endemic to coastal waters off of New Zealand and Australia (including Norfolk Island). There is a rich fossil record in New Zealand. Species are common within the intertidal and subtidal zone.

Evolution

Cominella is currently classified within the family Buccinidae, although it has also been classified within the alternative families Buccinulidae and Cominellidae.

Ancestors of Cominella species in Australia likely migrated from New Zealand via long-distance egg rafting, despite taxa exhibiting direct development. Cominella is closely related to the genus Pareuthria.

Species

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Cominella include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Gray (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 72.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2011). Cominella Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196902 on 2011-04-19
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Donald, Kirsten M.; Winter, David J.; Ashcroft, Anna L.; Spencer, Hamish G. (2015). "Phylogeography of the whelk genus Cominella (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) suggests long-distance counter-current dispersal of a direct developer". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115 (2): 315–332. doi:10.1111/bij.12529.
  4. 1 2 3 Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Fleming, Angela M.; Dohner, Melanie; Phillips, Nicole E.; Ritchie, Peter A. (2018). "Genetic connectivity among populations of two congeneric direct-developing whelks varies across spatial scales". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 52 (1): 100–117. doi:10.1080/00288330.2017.1340899. S2CID 90774557.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Dohner, Melanie; Phillips, Nicole E.; Ritchie, Peter A. (2018). "Fine-scale genetic structure across a New Zealand disjunction for the direct-developing intertidal whelk Cominella maculosa (Gastropoda: Buccinidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123 (2): 593–602. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx167.
  7. 1 2 Willan, R.C., de C. Cook, S., Spencer, H.G., Creese, R.G., O’Shea, S., Jackson, G.D. Phylum Mollusca. In: de C. Cook, S.C. (eds.), New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1, 401 – 405. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ISBN 978-1877257-60-5
  8. 1 2 3 Gemmell, Michael R.; Trewick, Steven A.; Crampton, James S.; Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Daly, Elizabeth E.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Beu, Alan G.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2018). "Genetic structure and shell shape variation within a rocky shore whelk suggest both diverging and constraining selection with gene flow". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125 (4): 827–843. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/bly142.
  9. ↑ Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
  10. 1 2 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  11. ↑ Walton, Kerry; Marshall, Bruce A.; Phillips, Nicole E.; Verry, Alexander J.F.; Ritchie, Peter A. (2019). "Phylogeography of the New Zealand whelks Cominella maculosa and C. virgata (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Buccinidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 126 (1): 178–202. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/bly174.

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