Mitreola

Mitreola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Volutinae
Tribe: Lyriini
Genus: Mitreola
Swainson, 1833
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Eneata
  • Mitreala (misspelling)

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

'MItreola' also refers to a genus of plants in the Loganiaceae plant family.

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include:[3]

  • † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [4]
  • † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
  • † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

References

  1. 1 2 Mitreola Swainson, 1833.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
  2. ↑ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ GBIF : Mitreola labratula
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281


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