Comispira

Comispira
	Shell of Comispira compta (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Cochlespiridae
Genus:	Comispira; Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
Type species
	Leucosyrinx mai; B.-Q. Li & X.-Z. Li, 2008
Species
	See text

Comispira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.^[1]

General characteristics

Species of this genus resemble Sibogasyrinx in the presence of the subsutural row of nodules, but differ in usually more pronounced spiral sculpture on the shell base, of broadly-spaced and rather strong spiral cords.^[2]

Species

Comispira candida Kantor, Hallan & Criscione, 2022
Comispira compta Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
Comispira erica (Thiele, 1925)
Comispira exstructa (E. von Martens, 1904)
Comispira mai (B.-Q. Li & X.-Z. Li, 2008)
Comispira obtusigemmata (Schepman, 1913)
Comispira saudesae (Cossigniani, 2018)
Comispira subsuturalis (E. von Martens, 1901)

References

↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Comispira Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1259139 on 2018-11-14
↑ Kantor, Y. I.; Fedosov, A.; Puillandre, N. (2025). "Revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889 (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 999: 7. Retrieved 7 July 2026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.

External links

Kantor Yu.I., Fedosov A.E. & Puillandre N. (2018). New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters. Ruthenica. 28(2): 47-82
Kantor, Y.I. & Puillandre, N. (2021). Rare, deep-water and similar: revision of Sibogasyrinx (Conoidea: Cochlespiridae). European Journal of Taxonomy. 773: 19-60. This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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[WoRMS-1] MolluscaBase (2018). Comispira Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1259139 on 2018-11-14

[2] Kantor, Y. I.; Fedosov, A.; Puillandre, N. (2025). "Revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889 (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 999: 7. Retrieved 7 July 2026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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