Cominella quoyana

Cominella quoyana
A shell of Cominella quoyana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cominellidae
Genus:	Cominella
Species:	C. quoyana
Binomial name
Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
Synonyms
Buccinum luridumHutton, 1873 (Invalid: not B. luridum Philippi, 1849) † Cominella (Cominula) kempiPowell, 1934 [1] Cominella (Cominula) quoyanaA. Adams, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Cominella (Josepha) quoyanaA. Adams, 1855 Cominella (Josepha) quoyana quoyanaA. Adams, 1855 Cominella huttoniKobelt, 1878 Cominella quoyana quoyanaA. Adams, 1855

Cominella quoyana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Cominella quoyana accuminata(Hutton, 1893): synonym of Cominella accuminata Hutton, 1893
• Cominella quoyana griseicalx(Willian, 1978): synonym of Cominella griseicalx Willan, 1978
• Cominella quoyana necopinata(Finlay, 1930): synonym of Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)

References

1. Powell, A. W. B. (1934). "Upper Pliocene Fossils from Cape Runaway". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum . 1: 261–274. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42905956. Wikidata   Q58676565.
2. Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)

• Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington. xx + 116 pp.
• Kobelt, W. (1878). Catalog der Gattung Cominella Gray. Jahrbucher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 5: 231–235.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1

External links

• Adams A. (1855 ["1854"). Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 311-317]
• Donald K.M, Winter D.J., Ashcroft A.L. & Spencer H.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 of London. 115: 315-332

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