Comitas trailli

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Comitas trailli
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. trailli
Binomial name
Comitas trailli
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms

Pleurotoma trailli Hutton, 1873

Comitas trailli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae.

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[edit] Range of distribution

This species is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This species is found at depths of between 25 and 110 m.

[edit] Shell description

On the spire-whorls there is a weak submargining smooth cord, followed by a deeply concave, faintly spirally striated shoulder sulcus, and from there to the lower suture the axials are overridden by three spiral cords.

Coloration varies from yellowish or purplish-brown, in shallow-water shells, to creamy-white in those from deeper water.

The shell height is up to 28 mm, and the width is up to 10.25 mm.

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