''Cominella quoyana'' is a
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predatory
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sea snail
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, a
marine
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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in the
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Cominellidae
The Cominellidae are taxonomic family of large sea snails in the superfamily Buccinoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Cominellidae Gray, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.ph ...
.
[Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)]
;Subspecies:
* ''Cominella quoyana accuminata''
(Hutton, 1893): synonym of ''
Cominella accuminata
''Cominella'' is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae.Bouchet, P. (2011). Cominella Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=tax ...
''
Hutton, 1893
* ''Cominella quoyana griseicalx''
(Willian, 1978): synonym of ''
Cominella griseicalx''
Willan, 1978
* ''Cominella quoyana necopinata''
(Finlay, 1930): synonym of ''
Cominella necopinata''
(Finlay, 1930)
References
* Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington. xx + 116 pp.
* Kobelt, W. (1878). Catalog der Gattung Cominella Gray. Jahrbucher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 5: 231–235.
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
External links
Adams A. (1855 ["1854". Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 311-317">1854"">Adams A. (1855 ["1854"
. Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 311-317
Donald K.M, Winter D.J., Ashcroft A.L. & Spencer H.G. (2015). Phylogeography of the whelk genus Cominella (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) suggests long-distance counter-current dispersal of a direct developer. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London. 115: 315-332
Cominellidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1854
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