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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Voluta pyramis Wood, 1828

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis (Wood, 1828)

Types

Primary Type: holotype [] Wood, W. 1828. p.10, pl. 3, fig. 16b
BMNH ((British Museum) Natural History, London) 1967939 holotype New Guinea (by subsequent designation by Cernohorsky, 1976)

Keywords

Original Epithet:  pyramis
Original Text Name:  Voluta pyramis Wood, 1828
Original Genus:  Voluta

References

 Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. p.425 [ The probable holotype of Voluta pyramis Wood, which also appears to be the type- specimen of Mitra cancellata Swainson (non Röding), is in the BMNH [BMNH no. 1967939]. In the same container, and under the same registration number, is a specimen which closely resembles the type-figure of M. loricata Reeve, and which could be the holotype ex-Metcalfe's collection. The probable holotype of pyramis was accessioned in 1829, and the second, probable type of loricata must have been placed in the same box by error. ]  Type information

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Mitridae
                          Mitrinae
                            Mitra Lamarck, 1798
                              Mitra (Nebularia) Swainson, 1840
                                Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis (Wood, 1828)
                                  Voluta pyramis Wood, 1828

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=13131) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.