Domiporta

Members of Domiporta have a shell ranging between 15–65 mm (0.59–2.56 in) in size, and are fusiform, either elongated or ovate. They have a high spire, short aprtture, teleochonches that have been 5-10 convex whorls, a protoconch that has 1.5-4 smooth nuclear whorls, which range in colour between white, violet or translucent. The radula of Comiporta is uniquely patterned.^[2][3]

The taxon was first described as a subgenus of Cancilla in 1970 by New Zealand malacologist Walter Oliver Cernohorsky, who assigned Domiporta filaris, which has originally been described as Voluta filaris by Carl Linnaeus in 1771, as the type species.^[2] Domiporta was first identified as "group 10" by Alfred Hands Cooke in 1920, who noticed similarities between the species due to their unique radula. Both Alfred James Peile in 1936 and Cernohorsky in 1966 recognised the distinctiveness of Domiporta, but it was not until 1970 when Cernohorsky formally described Domiporta as a taxon.^[2] By 1977, Cernohorsky had begun to describe Domiporta as a genus,^[4] and in 1989, Domiporta was described as a genus by Vaught, Abbott and Boss.^[5]

Phylogenetic analysis places Domiporta in the core of the Mitridae family group in Clade M-II, with the closest relatives being members of the genera Roseomitra, Fusidomiporta and Profundimitra, with more distant relatives including Quasimitra, Pseudonebularia and Ziba.^[6][3]

Domiporta are found in tropical Indo-Pacific regions, South Africa, southeastern Australia and the Kermadec Islands, and potentially West Africa. Fossils of the group date back to at least the Miocene.^[2][3]

Domiporta tend to live in shallow subtidal water, with some members living in the bathypelagic zone.^[2][3]

Species within the genus Domiporta include:^[1]

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  Domiporta gloriola
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  Domiporta granatina
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  Domiporta latistriata
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  Domiporta lichtlei
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  Domiporta praestantissima
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  Alive member of Domiporta filaris