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Taxonomy
Family:
PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
> Comitas (Genus)
> onokeana vivens (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Comitas (Carinacomitas) Powell, 1942
=Turricula (Comitas) Finlay, 1926
Images: Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956
Trawled from the Chatham Rise. 48mm
Holotype, collected 10 Feb 1954, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.009791). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
> Comitas (Genus)
> onokeana vivens (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Comitas (Carinacomitas) Powell, 1942
=Turricula (Comitas) Finlay, 1926
Details: Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956
Size/Grows to:
Height 48mm, Width 16mm
Distribution:
Off North Island east coast down to eastern Otago and Chatham Rise
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.229)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.131) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil