Comitas nana

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

Comitas nana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. nana
Binomial name
Comitas nana
Maxwell, 1988

Distribution

This extinct species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas nana Maxwell, 1988 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831469 on 2018-06-14
  • Maxwell, Phillip A. Late Miocene deep-water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, westland, New Zealand: paleoecology and systematics. No. 55. New Zealand Geological Survey, 1988.
  • 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.


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