Cominella

Cominella
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Recent, 27.3–0.0 Ma
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 snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[2][3][4]

Description

A live Cominella adspersa at Castlepoint, New Zealand.

Cominella is a genus of medium-sized buccinoid marine snails. All species are carnivores.[5]

Distribution

Many extant species are endemic to coastal waters off of New Zealand[6][3] and Australia (including Norfolk Island).[2] There is a rich fossil record in New Zealand.[7] Species are common within the intertidal and subtidal zone.[5]

Evolution

Cominella is currently classified within the family Buccinidae, although it has also been classified within the alternative families Buccinulidae and Cominellidae.[2][3]

Ancestors of Cominella species in Australia likely migrated from New Zealand via long-distance egg rafting, despite taxa exhibiting direct development.[2] Cominella is closely related to the genus Pareuthria.[2]

Species

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Cominella include:[6]

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Gray (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 72.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Donald, Kirsten M.; Winter, David J.; Ashcroft, Anna L.; Spencer, Hamish 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. 115: 315–332. doi:10.1111/bij.12529.
  3. 1 2 3 Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018.
  4. ↑ 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
  5. 1 2 Willan, R.C., de C. Cook, S., Spencer, H.G., Creese, R.G., O’Shea, S., Jackson, G.D. Phylum Mollusca. In: de C. Cook, S.C. (eds.), New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1, 401 – 405. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ISBN 978-1877257-60-5
  6. 1 2 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  7. ↑ Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.

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