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Comitas bilix

Comitas bilix is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine


gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids Comitas bilix
and allies.[1] Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Description
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Distribution
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand. Fossils have Order: Neogastropoda
been found in Tertiary strata of the Gisborne District
Superfamily: Conoidea

References Family: Pseudomelatomidae


Genus: Comitas
1. MolluscaBase (2018). Comitas bilix Marwick, 1931 †.
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species Species: C. bilix
at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?
Binomial name
p=taxdetails&id=831460 on 2018-06-27
Comitas bilix
Marwick, John. The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne
Marwick, 1931
District. Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research, Geological Survey Branch, 1931.
Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp. 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand
inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa,
Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links
Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (http://www.
mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf) (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.

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