Subgenus Cominella (Cominella) Gray, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cominella Gray, M.E. 1850. Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. London : Longmans, Brown & Green Vol. 4 124 pp. [72] [as maculosum Martyn; placed on the Official List by Opinion 479, 1957, Opinions and Declarations rendered by the ICZN, 16(22): 367].

  Type species:

   Buccinum testudineum Bruguière, 1789 (as Buccinum maculosum Martyn 1784) by subsequent designation, see Iredale, T. 1918. Molluscan nomenclatural problems and solutions-No. 1. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 13(1-2): 28-40 [34] (Iredale, 1918, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 13(1-2): 34).
• Acominia Finlay, H.J. 1926. New Shells from New Zealand Tertiary Beds: Part 2. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 56: 227–258 [240].

  Type species:

   Buccinum adspersum Bruguière by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Beu, A.G. 2011. Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41(1): 1-153 [31]

Peterson, C.H. 1995. Drilling by Buccinid gastropods of the genus Cominella in Australia. The Veliger 38(1): 37-42 [37-41]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [61]

History of changes