Anticomitas
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Anticomitas vivens is a species of sea snail in the family Pseudomelatomidae.{{r|wormssp}} It is the only species in the genus Anticomitas.{{r|wormsgen}}
Description
The length of the shell attains 9.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.{{fact|date=July 2020}}
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs off Three Kings Islands.{{fact|date=July 2020}}
References
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{{WRMS species|432394|Anticomitas Powell, 1942||16 April 2010}}
{{WRMS species|432979|Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942||31 March 2010}}
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- Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
- Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp. 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links
- {{cite journal |last1=Tucker |first1=J.K. |year=2004 |title=Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf|journal=Zootaxa |volume=682 |pages=1–1295 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 }}
- {{Gastropods.com|key=4|id=10534|title=Anticomitas vivens|access-date=15 January 2019}}
- [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone]
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Category:Monotypic gastropod genera
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