Members of Domiporta have a shell ranging between 15–65mm (0.59–2.56in) in size, and are fusiform, either elongated or ovate. They have a high spire, short aprtture, teleochonches that have been 5-10 convex whorls, a protoconch that has 1.5-4 smooth nuclear whorls, which range in colour between white, violet or transluscent. The radula of Comiporta is uniquely patterned.[2][3]
Taxonomy
The taxon was first described as a subgenus of Cancilla in 1970 by New Zealand malacologist Walter Olivier Cernohorsky, who assigned Domiporta filaris, which has originally been described as Voluta filaris by Carl Linnaeus in 1771, as the type species.[2]Domiporta was first identified as "group 10" by Alfred Hands Cooke in 1920, who noticed similarities between the species due to their unique radula. Both Alfred James Peile in 1936 and Cernohorsky in 1966 recognised the distinctiveness of Domiporta, but it was not until 1970 when Cernohorsky formally described Domiporta as a taxon.[2] By 1977, Cernohorsky had begun to describe Domiporta as a genus,[4] and in 1989, Domiporta was described as a genus by Vaught, Abbott and Boss.[5]
Domiporta are found in tropical Indo-Pacific regions, South Africa, southeastern Australia and the Kermadec Islands, and potentially West Africa. Fossils of the group date back to at least the Miocene.[2][3]
Ecology
Domiporta tend to live in shallow subtidal water, with some members living in the bathypelagic zone.[2][3]
↑ Huang, S.-I. (2011). "Calcimitra, a new genus of deep-water Mitridae (Gastropoda: Mitridae) with the description of five new species from Taiwan and the Philippines". Visaya. 3 (4): 88–97.
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