Comptella curta

Comptella curta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Comptella curta
Shell of Comptella curta held at Te Papa, Wellington
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Comptella
Species:	C. curta
Binomial name
Comptella curta (Murdoch, 1905)
Synonyms[1]
Trophon (Kalydon) curta Murdoch, 1905

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.