''Coronacomitas'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2015). Coronacomitas Shuto, 1983. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578165 on 2017-01-17]
This genus was originally proposed by T. Shuto in 1983 as a subgenus of ''
Paradrillia'' for ''Paradrillia gemmata''. It showed some resemblance to ''Pleurotoma multiseriata''
Smith, 1877, synonym of ''
Epidirona multiseriata''
(E. A. Smith, 1877). It differs however by the position of the anal sinus which is situated on the shoulder slope and not on the shoulder itself.
References
* T. Shuto, 1983. ''New turrid taxa from the Australian waters''. Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyushu Univ.
5 (1): 1-26, pis. 1–2.
External links
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea''. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
Horaiclavidae
Gastropod genera
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