Mitromorpha dormitor

Mitromorpha dormitor
Drawing of a shell of Mitromorpha dormitor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mitromorphidae
Genus:Mitromorpha
Species: M. dormitor
Binomial name
Mitromorpha dormitor
(Sowerby I, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Columbella dormitor Sowerby I, 1844
  • Columbella dortimor [sic] (misspelling)
  • Columbella purpurascens Adams, C.B., 1845
  • Lovellona dormitor (Sowerby I, 1844)
  • Minipyrene dortimor [sic]

Mitromorpha dormitor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 7.3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Curaçao and St Vincent.

References

  1. 1 2 Mitromorpha dormitor (Sowerby I, 1844).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  • Sowerby Jr, G. B. "Descriptions of some new species of Columbella, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esp." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844.
  • Gastropods.com: Lovellona dormitor
  • Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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