''Boreocomitas'' is a

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Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Bouchet & Ro ...

, 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 {{paleo-Pseudomelatomidae-stub