Comitas salebrosa

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Comitas salebrosa
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Shell of Comitas salebrosa (holotype)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. salebrosa
Binomial name
Comitas salebrosa
(G.F. Harris, 1897)7
Synonyms

Pleurotoma salebrosaG.F.Harris, 1897

Comitas salebrosa is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae. [1]

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Description

Pimensions: length 33.5 mm; breadth 12 mm; length of the aperture 17 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell contains eight whorls. In the young growth is flat. In the neanic and ephebic stages the whorls are subangulately convex, rapidly increasing in size. The protoconch consists of two smooth whorls, globose, the later whorl being wider than the succeeding whorl. The sculpture consists of 13 to 14 deep, undulating sulcations on each whorl of the spire. The body whorl is sulcated throughout in a similar manner. The lines of growth are not very conspicuous, but the surface of the shell is peculiarly, distantly corrugated. These corrugations number five on the penultimate whorl, and rise into indistinct, broad, oblique ribs. The aperture is pyriform and much contracted in front. The outer lip is thin and slightly sulcated within. The broad and shallow sinus is situated about halfway between the peripheral subangulation and the suture. The columella is smooth, striated vertically, but not callous, twisted in front. The siphonal canal is long and broad at its extremity. [2]

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in late Eocene strata in Victoria, Australia.

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References

  1. ↑ Powell, A. W. B. (1944). "The Australian Tertiary Mollusca of the Family Turridae". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum . 3: 3–68. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42905993. Wikidata   Q58676624.
  2. ↑ Harris G.F.. (1897) Catalogue of Tertiary Molluscs in the British Museum of Natural History PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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