Cominella adspersa

Cominella adspersa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Subfamily:	Buccininae
Tribe:	Cominellini
Genus:	Cominella
Species:	C. adspersa
Binomial name
Cominella adspersa (Bruguière, 1789)

Cominella adspersa, common name the speckled whelk or kawari in Maori, found in New Zealand, is a predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

apertural view of the shell of Cominella adspersa.

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

External links

• http://www.mollusca.co.nz/speciesdetail.php?speciesid=1086&species=Cominella%20adspersa
• http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/whelk-speckled/1

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