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Pleurotoma symbiotes Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Comitas symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)

Types

Primary Type: holotype [Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 8, p. 444, figs. 13a, b.]
Indian Museum, Calcutta holotype India, off the southern extremity, 7°04'N., 76°34'15"E., in 1043 fathoms.

Keywords

Original Epithet:  symbiotes
Nomenclatural Action: New Taxon 
Original Text Name:  Pleurotoma symbiotes
Original Genus:  Pleurotoma
Status of Name: Synonym       Powell, A.W.B. 1969.  

References

 Powell, A.W.B. 1969. p. 275 [ Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 8, p. 444, figs. 13a, b. Powell lists genus as " ?Comitas ." ]  Synonomy

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Conoidea
                        Turridae
                          Cochlespirinae Powell, 1942
                            Comitas Finlay, 1926
                              Comitas symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
                                Pleurotoma symbiotes Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=49430) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.