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Comitas kaipara

Extinct species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Comitas kaipara is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

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Comitas kaipara
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. kaipara
Binomial name
Comitas kaipara
C.R. Laws, 1939
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Description

The length of the shell attains 19 mm, its diameter 6.3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand. Fossils have been in Cenozoic strata

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