Cominella quoyana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae. [1]

Cominella quoyana
A shell of Cominella quoyana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cominellidae
Genus: Cominella
Species:
C. quoyana
Binomial name
Cominella quoyana
A. Adams, 1854
Synonyms
  • Buccinum luridum Hutton, 1873 (Invalid: not B. luridum Philippi, 1849)
  • Cominella (Cominula) kempi Powell, 1934
  • Cominella (Cominula) quoyana A. Adams, 1855· accepted, alternate representation
  • Cominella (Josepha) quoyana A. Adams, 1855
  • Cominella (Josepha) quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855
  • Cominella huttoni Kobelt, 1878
  • Cominella quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855

Subspecies

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References

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  1. ^ Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)
  • Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington. xx + 116 pp.
  • Kobelt, W. (1878). Catalog der Gattung Cominella Gray. Jahrbucher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 5: 231–235.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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