Comitas yokoyamai

Comitas yokoyamai is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Comitas yokoyamai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Comitas
Species:
C. yokoyamai
Binomial name
Comitas yokoyamai
(K. Oyama in Taki & Oyama, 1954)
Synonyms

Cryptogemma yokoyamai Oyama, 1954

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Cenozoic and Pliocene strata in Japan.

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Comitas yokoyamai
  • Yokoyama, M., 1920: Fossils from the Miura peninsula and its immediate north. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, vol. 39, art. 6, pp. 1–193, pls. 1–20
  • Taki, I. and Oyama, K., 1954: Matajiro Yokoyama's the Pliocene and later faunas from the Kwanto region in Japan. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Papers, no. 2, pp. 1–68, pls. 1–49
  • Oyama, K., 1973: Revision of Matajiro Yokoyama's type Mollusca from the Tertiary and Quaternary of the Kanto area. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Papers, no. 17, pp. 1–148, pls. 1–57
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