Biology:Cominella virgata brookesi

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Cominella virgata brookesi
Cominella virgata brookesi.JPG
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Buccininae
Tribe:
Cominellini
Genus:
Species:
Subspecies:
C. virgata brookesi
Trinomial name
Cominella virgata brookesi
Powell, 1952

Cominella virgata brookesi is a subspecies of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][2]

References

  1. 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 (2): 315–332. doi:10.1111/bij.12529. 
  2. 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. PMID 28669812. 
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1

Wikidata ☰ Q5151895 entry