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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Mitra flammea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Ziba flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Types

Primary Type: lectotype [] Quoy, J.M.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. p.659, pl. 45, figs. 23-25
(illustration) lectotype [type lost - originally in MNHN] Aru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia (by subsequent designation by Cernohorsky, 1991)

Keywords

Original Epithet:  flammea
Original Text Name:  Mitra flammea
Original Genus:  Mitra

References

 Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. p.53 [ The type of M. flammea Quoy & Gaimard can no longer be found in the MNHN (P. Bouchet & S. Tillier, in litt.) and Cernohorsky (1991) designated Quoy & Gaimard's figs. 23-25 from pl. 46 bis of the "Atlas" (1833) as the illustrated lectotype. ]  Type information

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Mitridae
                          Imbricariinae
                            Ziba H. & A. Adams, 1853
                              Ziba flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
                                Mitra flammea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=13288) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.