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Comitas hillegondae Martin, 1931

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Pseudomelatomidae »  genus Comitas

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Comitas hillegondae

Author: Powell, A.W.B.

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Paleontology

Shell rather small, 19 mm. (0,75 inch) in height, narrowly fusiform, with a tall spire, almost 1,5 times the height of the aperture plus the canal. Sculpture of rather widely spaced, vertical, bold, broadly rounded axials, which arc subobsolete over the shallow, rather wide, steeply descending shoulder slope. The broadly rounded peripheral subangle is at about the lower third of whorl height, which gives the shell a sagged look. Subsutural fold weak. Whole surface of the shell with linear-spaced spiral lirae which override the axials. Base deeply contracted to an anterior canal of moderate length. So far as can be judged from the indistinct figure of this species it conforms with Comitas rather than with Turricula. This species must not be confused with Surcula hillegondae Martin, 1914, which appears to be happily placed in Turricula.
Range—Nanggulan Beds, Miocene of Kali Puru, Java.
Powell, A.W.B., 1969.The family Turridae in the Indo-pacific. Part 2: The subfamily Turriculinae.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Comitas hillegondae Martin, 1931]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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