Mitra testacea

Mitra testacea
Sowerby's illustration accompanying Reeve's 1844 description.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Mitra (gastropod)
Subgenus: Nebularia
Species: M. testacea
Binomial name
Mitra testacea
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra antoni Dohrn, 1860[3] nec Küster, 1839

Mitra testacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Taxonomy

William Broderip described M. testacea in 1835; the holotype had been collected by Hugh Cuming.[2]

Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn described M. antoni in 1860 from a specimen also in Cuming's collection.[3] Dohrn classified this species as a junior synonym of M. testacea in 1861.[4] Dohrn's M. antoni should not be confused with M. antonii Küster, 1839, sometimes taken to be its senior homonym.[1]

George Washington Tryon proposed that both M. bulimoides Reeve, 1844 and M. badia Reeve, 1844 are junior synonyms of M. testacea,[5] but this has not been accepted.[6][1]

Walter O. Cernohorsky proposed that M. obliqua Lesson, 1842 was a junior synonym of M. testacea,[6] but this also has not been accepted.[7][1]

Distribution

It has been found in the Kingsmill Islands, Cook Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Gambier Islands, and the Pitcairn Islands.[6]

Description

Its shell is a light reddish brown color,[8] and can grow to a length of 32 mm (1.3 in).[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rosenberg, G. (2011). "Mitra testacea Broderip, 1836". World Register of Marine Species.
  2. 1 2 Broderip, W. J. (1835). "Characters of New Genera and Species of Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3 (1): 193. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1835.tb01268.x.
  3. 1 2 Dohrn, H. (1860). "Description of New Species of Mitra from the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 368.
  4. ↑ Dohrn, H. (1861). "Zur Kenntniss von Mitra". Malakozoologische Blätte. 8: 134.
  5. ↑ Tyron, Jr., George W. (1882). Nassidæ, Turbinellidæ, Volutidæ, Mitridæ. Manual of Conchology. 4. Philadelphia. p. 127; Pl. 27, Fig. 110.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Cernohorsky, Walter O. (1976). "The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae". Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 3 (17): 434–435.
  7. ↑ Tröndlé, Jean; Von Cosel, Rudo (2005). "Inventaire bibliographique des mollusques marins de l'Archipel des Marquises (Polynésie française)". Atoll Research Bulletin. 542: 303. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.542.265.
  8. ↑ Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1844). "Plate XIV". Monograph of the Genus Mitra. Conchologia Iconica. 2. London: Reeve, Brothers. Species 98.

Further reading

  • Garrett, Andrew (1872). "List of Species of Mitridæ collected at Raratonga, Cook's Islands, with Notes, also Descriptions of new Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1872: 840.
  • Sowerby, G. B. (1880). A Monograph of the Genus Mitra. Thesaurus Conchyliorum. 4. London: Sowerby. p. 7; Pl. 8, Fig. 103
  • Garrett, Andrew (1880). "Catalogue of the Polynesian Mitridæ, with remarks on their geographical range, station, and descriptions of supposed new species". Journal of Conchology. 3 (1): 29.
  • Couturier, Martial (1907). "Étude sur les mollusques gastropodes recueillis par M. L.-G. Seurat dans les archipels de Tahiti, Paumotu et Gambier". Journal de conchyliologie. 55 (2): 132.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph.; Bouge, J.-L. (1933). "Les mollusques testacés marins des éstablissements français de l'Océanie (Suite)". Journal de conchyliologie. 77 (3): 193.


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