Comitas onokeana vivens

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Comitas onokeana vivens
Fossil range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Comitas
Species: C. onokeana
Subspecies: C. onokeana vivens
Trinomial name
Comitas onokeana vivens
Dell, 1956

Comitas onokeana vivens is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae.

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[edit] Range of distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand including the Chatham Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This subspecies is found at depths of between 365 and 640 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is solid, narrowly fusiform, with a weak subsutural fold, concave smooth shoulder sulcus, and numerous, protractively oblique, strong rounded axials, extending from the lower edge of the shoulder sulcus to the lower suture. From the shoulder angle downward, the surface is cut into flat-topped spiral cords by incised spiral lines.

Coloration is white, under a pale yellowish-olive periostracum.

The shell height is up to 47 mm, and the width is up to 14.5 mm.

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