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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Mitra emiliae Preston, 1908

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Mitra (Nebularia) maesta Reeve, 1845

Types

Primary Type: holotype [] Preston, H.B. 1908. p.193, pl. 17, fig. 68
???? holotype Andaman Islands

Keywords

Original Epithet:  emiliae
Original Text Name:  Mitra emiliae Preston, 1908
Original Genus:  Mitra

References

 Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. p.416 [ The holotype of M. emiliae Preston is probably in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, but a syntype is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, ex-Preston coll. (11-5- 1907). ]  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) maesta Reeve, 1845
                                  Mitra emiliae Preston, 1908

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=46859) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.