Cominella crozieri Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: J. D. Stilwell and W. J. Zinsmeister. 1992. Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy. Antarctic Research Series, AGU 55

Belongs to Cominella according to J. D. Stilwell and W. J. Zinsmeister 1992

Sister taxa: Cominella (Cominella), Cominella (Cominula), Cominella (Eucominia), Cominella (Josepha), Cominella (Procominula), Cominella annandalei, Cominella bonnecarreri, Cominella clelandi, Cominella colemani, Cominella crassina, Cominella douvillei, Cominella eocenica, Cominella lecontei, Cominella maculosa, Cominella pertusa, Cominella praecursor, Cominella pumila, Cominella retifera, Cominella staufti, Cominella subfilicea, Cominella supracostata

Type specimen: USNM 441727, a shell. Its type locality is IPS 10, Seymour Island, which is in a Bartonian coastal sandstone in the La Meseta Formation of Antarctica.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at IPS 2, Seymour Island

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