Comitas eurina

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

Comitas eurina
Original image of a shell of Comitas eurina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. eurina
Binomial name
Comitas eurina
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma (Surcula) eurina E. A. Smith, 1899 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 31 mm and 62 mm.

The white, slender shell has a fusiform shape It contains 9 -10 whorls. The whorls are angulated in the middle, concave in the upper portion and convex below. The whorls are bordered below the suture with a thickened margin. The longitudinal ribs are nodose. The plicae are delicate and oblique. The body whorl contains about 16 oblique ribs that become in the lower part attenuate and then almost obsolete. The white aperture measures about 3/7 the total length. The outer lip is tenuous and widely sinuate. The smooth columella is almost upright. The broad siphonal canal is oblique.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar, Borneo and south of India at a depth of 878 m.

References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Comitas eurina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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