Comitas galatheae

Comitas galatheae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Comitas
Species:	C. galatheae
Binomial name
Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969

Comitas galatheae, common name the galatheae turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

Description

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The length of the shell attains 105 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, and Western Australia.

References

• Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324
• Kosuge, S 1986. Report of the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia (Gastropoda) (1). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(5): 80-90
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Sysoev, A.V. 1997. Mollusca Gastropoda: new deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (N.S.) [1993-2016] série A, Zoologie 172: 325–355

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• "Comitas galatheae". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
• Biolib.cz: Comitas galatheae

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