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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae
Mitra (Nebularia) maesta Reeve, 1845
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Mitra maesta Reeve, 1845
Mitra emiliae Preston, 1908
Distribution
Andaman Islands to Philippines and Bismark Archipelago (New Britain).
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean: Andaman and Nicobar: Andaman Islands
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Philippines
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Oceania: Western Pacific: Bismark Archipelago
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean: Andaman and Nicobar: Andaman Islands
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean: Indonesia (W)
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Papua New Guinea
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Indonesia
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Papua New Guinea: Bismark Archipelago: New Britain
Keywords
depth: sublittoral zone [ from 10 to 20 fathoms
]
depth: subtidal
habitat: coral reef
substrate: coral sand [ on coral sand and mud
]
substrate: mud
substrate: sand
References
Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. p.415 [ Distribution map (Pl. 357) [NOTE: map
for M. maesta has only part of range
described in text indicated; text description
of range indicates "Admiralty Islands" in
error (?) as detailed list of records includes
only New Britain for records in Melanesia];
additional reference types = Contains
synonymy, Type information, General.
] General reference
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. p.99 General reference
Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1984. p.19 General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Mitridae
Mitrinae
Mitra Lamarck, 1798
Mitra (Nebularia) Swainson, 1840
Mitra (Nebularia) maesta Reeve, 1845
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=45498) created by Jason D. Weintraub on 2001-05-01. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-03-06.