Mitreola (gastropod)

Genus of gastropods

Mitreola
Mitreola labratula Lamarck 1803
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
  • Mitra (Mitreola) Swainson, 1833
  • Mitreala (misspelling)

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

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include:[3]

  • Mitreola brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014 [4]
  • Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [5]
  • Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
  • Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
Species brought into synonymy
  • Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
  • Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
  • Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

See also

  • Mitreola (plant)

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
  5. ^ GBIF : Mitreola labratula
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281
Taxon identifiers
Mitreola


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