Abyssocomitas kurilokamchatica

Abyssocomitas kurilokamchatica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Abyssocomitas kurilokamchatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Abyssocomitas
Species:
A. kurilokamchatica
Binomial name
Abyssocomitas kurilokamchatica
Sysoev & Kantor, 1986

Description

Distribution

This is a deep-sea species, occurring in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench in the northern Pacific.

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References

  • Kantor, Yu I., and A. V. Sysoev. "A New Genus and New Species from the Family Turridae (Gastropoda, Toxoglossa) in the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean." Zoologichesky Zhurnal 65.4 (1986): 485-498.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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