''Boreocomitas'' is a
genus
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of extinct
sea snails, marine
gastropod mollusk
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s in the
family
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Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...
, the turrids and allies.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Boreocomitas Hickman, 1976 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1317372 on 2019-01-28]
Species
Species within the genus ''Boreocomitas'' include:
* † ''
Boreocomitas brevior''
(Koenen, 1885)
* † ''
Boreocomitas inouei''
Amano, Hryniewicz & R. G. Jenkins, 2018
* † ''
Boreocomitas oregonensis''
(Hickman, 1976)
References
Kazutaka Amano & Krzysztof Hryniewicz &Robert G Jenkins, A newly discovered Paleocene species of Boreocomitas (Gastropoda: Pseudomelatomidae) from eastern Hokkaido, Japan, with implications for the biogeography of the Paleocene Bering Strait; Nautilus 2018
External links
Hickman C.S. (1976). Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleogene of the eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 70(292): 1-119
Pseudomelatomidae
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