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Comitas obtusigemmata M. M. Schepman, 1913

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

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Comitas obtusigemmata

Author: Schepman, M.M.

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Description

Shell broadly fusiform, with pyramidal spire and rather long, slender canal, thin, yellowish-grey. Nucleus of largest specimen wanting, remaining whorls 6, not very convex, but apparently so by a row of coarse, obtuse, rounded beads, near the base of upper whorls and the peri¬phery of last whorl, where they are 14 in number; a second row of small tubercles, rounded in upper whorls, having the character of oblique folds on lower ones, runs just below the deep suture, on a subsutural rib; lower on the shell is lirate, 2 faint lirae in the interstices of the peripheral beads, 2 strong ones below the beads of last whorl and numerous fainter ones on base and canal; the shell is covered with very fine growth-lines, last whorl strongly attenuated below. Aperture oval, angular above, ending in a rather long, narrow canal below; peristome thin, with a wide, rather shallow sinus above; then strongly protracted; columellar margin rather straight, directed to the left near and along the canal, with a thin layer of white enamel.
Alt. 22,5 mm, lat. 9,5 mm.; apert. alt. 13,5 mm; lat. 3,75 mm
Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part V: Toxoglossa. (Original description)

Distribution

Indonesia: East Makassar Strait, East Arafura Sea. Channel between Makjan and Halmahera.
Author: Jan Delsing

Similar species

Comitas subsuturalis E. von Martens, 1902

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Comitas obtusigemmata (Schepman, 1913)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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