Comitas

Comitas
Comitas peelae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Comitas Finlay, 1926
Type species
† Surcula oamarutica Suter, 1917 (type by original designation)
Species
See text

Comitas is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Species and subspecies

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Comitas include:

Comitas aequatorialis (Thiele, 1925) Comitas albicincta (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) Comitas anteridion (Watson, 1881) Comitas arcana (E. A. Smith, 1899) Comitas bolognai Bozzetti, 2001 Comitas breviplicata (E. A. Smith, 1899) Comitas chuni (von Martens, 1902) Comitas curviplicata Sysoev, 1996 Comitas elegans Sysoev, 1996 Comitas ensyuensis (Shikama & Hayashi in Shikama, 1977) Comitas erica (Thiele, 1925) Comitas eurina (E. A. Smith, 1899) Comitas exstructa (von Martens, 1903) Comitas fusiformis Comitas gagei Comitas galatheae Powell, 1969 Comitas granuloplicata Kosuge, 1992 Comitas halicyria (Melvill, 1904) Comitas hayashii (Shikama, 1977) Comitas ilariae Bozzetti, 1991 Comitas kaderlyi (Lischke, 1872) Comitas kamakurana (Pilsbry, 1895) Comitas kirai Powell, 1969 Comitas kuroharai (Oyama, 1962) Comitas laura (Thiele, 1925) Comitas lurida (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) Comitas luzonica Powell, 1969 Comitas malayana (Thiele, 1925) Comitas margaritae (E. A. Smith, 1904) Comitas melvilli (Schepman, 1913)

Comitas monile Comitas murrawolga (Garrard, 1961) Comitas nana Comitas oahuensis Powell, 1969 Comitas obliquicosta (Martens, 1901) Comitas obtusigemmata (Schepman, 1913) Comitas onokeana King, 1933 Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956 Comitas opulenta (Thiele, 1925) Comitas oregonensis Comitas pachycercus Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001 Comitas pagodaeformis (Schepman, 1913) Comitas parvifusiformis Li & Li, 2008 Comitas paupera (Watson, 1881) Comitas peelae Bozzetti, 1993 Comitas powelli Rehder & Ladd, 1973 Comitas raybaudii Bozzetti, 1994 Comitas rex Sysoev, 1997 Comitas rotundata (Watson, 1881) Comitas saldanhae (Barnard, 1958) Comitas spencerensis Comitas stolida (Hinds, 1843) Comitas subsuturalis (von Martens, 1902) Comitas suluensis Powell, 1969 Comitas suratensis (Thiele, 1925) Comitas symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Comitas terrisae Comitas thisbe (E. A. Smith, 1906) Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873) Comitas undosa (Schepman, 1913) Comitas vezo Bozzetti, 2001 Comitas waihaoensis

Synonyms:

• Comitas claviforma Kosuge, 1992 is a basionym for Leucosyrinx claviforma (Kosuge, 1992)^[2]
• Comitas yukiae (Shikama, 1962): synonym of Antiplanes yukiae (Shikama, 1962)

References

1. WoRMS (2010). Comitas Finlay, 1926. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432433 on 2011-07-10
2. Tucker, J. (2009). Leucosyrinx claviforma (Kosuge, 1992). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434213 on 2010-04-16

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• GBIF
• ZipCodeZoo
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.