Anticomitas

Anticomitas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Anticomitas Powell, 1942
Species:	A. vivens
Binomial name
Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942

Anticomitas vivens is a species of sea snail in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1] It is the only species in the genus Anticomitas.^[2]

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 9.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.^{[citation needed]}

Distribution[]

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs off Three Kings Islands.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

• Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp. 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

External links[]

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• "Anticomitas vivens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone