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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae
Mitra bicolor Swainson, 1824Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy
Senior name:
Imbricaria bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
Types
Primary Type: lectotype [] Swainson, W. 1824. p.37
(illustration) lectotype Mauritius (by subsequent designation by Cernohorsky, 1991)
Keywords
Original Epithet: bicolor
Original Text Name: Mitra bicolor Swainson, 1824
Original Genus: Mitra
References
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. p.141 [ The type of Mitra bicolor Swainson is lost,
and Swainson's subsequent and excellent
illustration does not show the fine white
hair-line ornamentation within the brown
band. Cernohorsky (1991) designated fig.
2 on pl. 19 in Swainson (1829) as the
illustrated lectotype of Mitra bicolor.
] Type information
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Mitridae
Imbricariinae
Imbricaria Schumacher, 1817
Imbricaria bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
Mitra bicolor Swainson, 1824
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=46119) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.