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Comitas kaderlyi

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Comitas kaderlyi
Apertural view of a shell of Comitas kaderlyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. kaderlyi
Binomial name
Comitas kaderlyi
Lischke, 1872
Synonyms[1]
  • Comitas kaderleyi (Lischke, 1872)
  • Pleurotoma kaderlyi Lischke, 1872
  • Surcula kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872)

Comitas kaderlyi, common name Kaderly's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 44 mm and 100 mm.

The whorls are subangulated with about twelve oblique, rounded, longitudinal ribs below the angle. The surface is decussated by growth lines and small revolving striae. The shell is yellowish white, with orange-brown bands on the shoulder, at the base and intermediately three in all, the upper one appearing on the spire.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Japan, the Philippines and Madagascar

References

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  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2015). Comitas kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433345 on 2017-02-05
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Lischke (1872), Mai. Blat., xix, p. 100
  • Cernohorsky, W. O. (1987). "Taxonomic Notes on Some Deep-Water Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Malagasy Republic". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 24: 123–134. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906368. Wikidata Q58677293.
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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