''Cominella quoyana'' is a
species
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of
predatory
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sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a
marine gastropod
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mollusc
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in the
family
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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''
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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