Cominella

Cominella
Cominella quoyana quoyana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Subfamily: Buccininae
Tribe: Cominellini
Genus: Cominella
Gray, 1850[1]
Type species
Buccinum testudineum Bruguière, 1789
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Acominia Finlay, 1926
  • Cominella (Austrocominella) Ihering, 1907 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Cominella) Gray, 1850 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Eucominia) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Josepha) Tenison-Woods, 1878 (accepted, alternate representation)
  • Cominella (Procominula) Finlay, 1926 (accepted, alternate representation)
  • Eucominia Finlay, 1926
  • Zephos Finlay, 1926

Cominella is a genus of carnivorous sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[2]

Species

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Cominella include:[3]

  • Cominella acuminata Hutton, 1885
  • Cominella acutinodosa (Reeve, 1846)
  • Cominella adspersa (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Cominella alertae (Dell, 1956)
  • Cominella altispira (Marwick, 1948)
  • Cominella bauckei Marwick, 1928
  • Cominella cantuariensis Dell, 1951
  • † ''Cominella chattonensis (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella chorista Dell, 1952
  • Cominella cingulata (Hutton, 1885)
  • Cominella compacta Marwick, 1926
  • Cominella crassinodosa Marwick, 1931
  • Cominella denselirata (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella dingleyi Marwick, 1948
  • Cominella eburnea (Reeve, 1846)
  • Cominella elegantula Powell, 1946
    • Cominella elegantula marlboroughensis Powell, 1946
  • Cominella ellisoni Marwick
  • Cominella excoriata (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella excoriata (Finlay, 1926)
    • Cominella excoriata tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
  • Cominella exsculpta (Suter, 1917)
  • Cominella facinerosa Bartrum & Powell, 1928
  • Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
  • Cominella graemei Wells, 1986
  • Cominella hamiltoni (Hutton, 1885)
  • Cominella hendersoni Marwick, 1926
  • Cominella incisa (Hutton, 1885)
  • Cominella intermedia (Suter, 1917)
  • Cominella kereruensis Laws, 1932
  • Cominella lineolata (Lamarck, 1809)
  • Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
  • Cominella marshalli (Laws, 1932)
  • Cominella mirabilis Powell, 1929
    • Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951)
    • Cominella mirabilis powelli (Fleming, 1948)
  • Cominella nana (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
    • Cominella nassoides consobrina Powell, 1933
    • Cominella nassoides haroldi Powell, 1946
    • Cominella nassoides irdalei (Finlay, 1928)
    • Cominella nassoides nodicincta (Martens, 1878)
    • Cominella nassoides otakauica Powell, 1946
  • Cominella norfolkensis (Iredale, 1940)
  • Cominella obsoleta (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella olsoni (Dell, 1956)
  • Cominella onokeana (L. C. King, 1933)
  • Cominella otagoensis (Finlay, 1927)
  • Cominella powelli (C. A. Fleming, 1948)
  • Cominella praecox (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella propinqua (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella pukeuriensis (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella pulchra (Suter, 1917)
  • Cominella purchasi (Suter, 1917)
  • Cominella putangirua (L. C. King, 1933)
  • Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
    • Cominella quoyana accuminata Hutton, 1893
    • Cominella quoyana griseicalx Willian, 1978
    • Cominella quoyana necopinata (Finlay, 1930)
  • Cominella regalis Willian, 1977
  • Cominella ridicula Finlay, 1926
  • Cominella scirrifer Laws, 1933
  • Cominella tasmanica Tenison - Woods, 1878
  • Cominella testudinea (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Cominella tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
  • Cominella tuturewa (C. A. Fleming, 1943)
  • Cominella virgata H.& A. Adams, 1853
Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Gray (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 72.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2011). Cominella Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196902 on 2011-04-19
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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