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Paracomitas

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Paracomitas

| image = Paracomitas undosa 001.jpg

| image_caption = Paracomitas undosa

| authority = Powell, 1942

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = * Macrosinus Beu, 1970

  • Paracomitas (Macrosinus) Beu, 1970 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Paracomitas (Paracomitas) Powell, 1942 · accepted, alternate representation

| type_species = † Surcula castlecliffensis (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1919)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| display_parents = 3

}}

Paracomitas is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.{{WRMS species|432526|Paracomitas Powell, 1942||29 June 2012}}

Description

The genus Paracomitas has a carinate protoconch which lies in the same cone as the spire, thus differing from typical Comitas in which the protoconch is noncarinate, bulbous and tilted. Although the type of Comitas, C. oamarutica (Suter), is Drillia-like in the ornamentation of its spire, some species referred to Comitas by Powell on the basis of the protoconch, such as Comitas allani Powell, are similar in adult sculpture to Paracomitas. The protoconch of the species here referred to Paracomitas is small and appears to be slightly tilted, and the last quarter-turn or less is slightly angulate, but not definitely carinate.{{cite journal |last1=MacNeil |first1=F.S. |url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0339/report.pdf|title=Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa |journal=U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. |date=1961 |issue=339 |pages=1-148 |access-date=27 June 2024}} {{source-attribution}}

Species

Species within the genus Paracomitas include:

;Alternate representations

  • Paracomitas (Macrosinus) Beu, 1970 represented as Paracomitas Powell, 1942
  • Paracomitas (Macrosinus) haumuria Beu, 1979 represented as Paracomitas haumuria Beu, 1979

;Species brought into synonymy:

  • Paracomitas gypsata (Watson, 1881):{{WRMS species|434562|Paracomitas gypsata (Watson, 1881)||16 April 2010}} synonym of Gymnobela gypsata (Watson, 1881)

References

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External links

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  • {{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 }}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20151129211433/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308]
  • [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmFamily/PSEUDOMELATOMIDAELS.htm Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae]

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Category:Pseudomelatomidae