Comitas subcarinapex

Comitas subcarinapex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Comitas
Species:	C. subcarinapex
Binomial name
Comitas subcarinapex A.W.B. Powell, 1942
Synonyms
Carinacomitas subcarinapexA.W.B. Powell, 1942

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

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Lower Miocene strata off Southland, New Zealand. The type specimen is in the Auckland Museum.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas subcarinapex Powell, 1942 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831470 on 2018-06-24

• A.W.B. Powell (1942), The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics
• A.W.B. Powell (1942), Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 2 p. .60, pi. 10, fig. 5
• Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Auckland Museum: Comitas subcarinapex (holotype)
• Tucker Abbott, Indo-Pacific mollusca" vol. 2: Comitas allani; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103 U.S.A.