Biology:Cominella quoyana

Short description: Species of gastropod

Cominella quoyana
A shell of Cominella quoyana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cominellidae
Genus:	Cominella
Species:	C. quoyana
Binomial name
Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
Synonyms
Buccinum luridum Hutton, 1873 (Invalid: not B. luridum Philippi, 1849) † Cominella (Cominula) kempi Powell, 1934 Cominella (Cominula) quoyana A. Adams, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Cominella (Josepha) quoyana A. Adams, 1855 Cominella (Josepha) quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855 Cominella huttoni Kobelt, 1878 Cominella quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855

Cominella quoyana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Subspecies

• Cominella quoyana accuminata (Hutton, 1893): synonym of Cominella accuminata Hutton, 1893
• Cominella quoyana griseicalx (Willian, 1978): synonym of Cominella griseicalx Willan, 1978
• Cominella quoyana necopinata (Finlay, 1930): synonym of Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)

References

• Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington. xx + 116 pp.
• Kobelt, W. (1878). Catalog der Gattung Cominella Gray. Jahrbucher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 5: 231–235.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1

External links

• Adams A. (1855 ["1854"). Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 311-317]
• Donald K.M, Winter D.J., Ashcroft A.L. & Spencer H.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 of London. 115: 315-332

Wikidata ☰ Q3139099 entry