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Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Mitra arctata Sowerby, 1874

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Pterygia arctata (Sowerby, 1874)

Types

Primary Type: lectotype [] Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1874. p.14, pl. 17, figs. 316-317
(illustration) lectotype Australia

Keywords

Original Epithet:  arctata
Original Text Name:  Mitra arctata Sowerby, 1874
Original Genus:  Mitra

References

 Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. p.152 [ The type of Mitra arctata Sowerby is lost, and Cernohorsky (1991) designed the specimen depicted in figs. 316 and 317 on pl. 17 in Sowerby (1874) as the illustrated lectotype. ]  Type information

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Mitridae
                          Cylindromitrinae
                            Pterygia Röding, 1798
                              Pterygia arctata (Sowerby, 1874)
                                Mitra arctata Sowerby, 1874

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=46121) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.