Comitas latescens

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Comitas latescens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. latescens
Binomial name
Comitas latescens
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms [1]

Pleurotoma latescensHutton, 1873 (original combination)

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Comitas latescens is an extinct species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 21.5 mm, its diameter 10.1 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell has an acute spire. The rounded whorls are closely spirally striated. The spire whorls are obliquely plicated. There is a deep, broad groove at the suture. The aperture is ovate. The siphonal canal is rather produced. The body whorl is shorter than the spire. [2]

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand and was found off Mount Brown

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