Anticomitas vivens is a species of sea snail in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1] It is the only species in the genus Anticomitas.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Anticomitas Powell, 1942 |
| Species: | A. vivens
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| Binomial name | |
| Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.[citation needed]
Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs off Three Kings Islands.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- ^ Anticomitas Powell, 1942. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 April 2010.
- 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
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Anticomitas vivens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- 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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