The Comisana, also known as Faccia Rossa and Lentinese, is an Italian breed of domestic sheep indigenous to central and northern areas of the Mediterranean island of Sicily.
[4] The origins of the Comisana sheep are obscure; it is a southern Mediterranean breed.
[4] It appears to derive from cross-breeding of the Sicilian Pinzirita with Maltese sheep imported to Sicily towards the end of the nineteenth century.
[5]: 788 It is one of the seventeen autochthonous Italian sheep breeds for which a genealogical herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders;[6] the herdbook was established in 1976.
[8] The milk yield of the Comisana averages 104 ± 30 litres per lactation for primiparous ewes, and 189 ± 51 L for pluriparous ones.