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Afrocominella Iredale, 1918 
AphiaID: 225647

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Cominella elongata (Dunker, 1857) (type by original designation)
Parent Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
Sources  basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

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 Species Afrocominella capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844)
  » Subspecies Afrocominella capensis capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844)
» Subspecies Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
Species Afrocominella turtoni (Bartsch, 1915)

Species Afrocominella elongata (Dunker, 1857) accepted as Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
Species Afrocominella multistriata (Turton, 1932) accepted as Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225647
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-22 14:46:48Z  created  Wambiji, Nina
2006-09-04 10:51:58Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-08-10 10:14:45Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-10-02 09:38:56Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Afrocominella Iredale, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225647 on 2013-05-21
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