Afrocominella
Encyclopedia
Afrocominella is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Buccinidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Buccinidae
Buccinidae
Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...
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Species
Species within the genus Afrocominella include:- Afrocominella capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844)
- Afrocominella multistriata (Turton, 1932)
- Afrocominella turtoni (Bartsch, 1915)
- Afrocominella elongataAfrocominella elongataAfrocominella capensis, common name the elongate whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae....
: synonym of Afrocominella capensis