OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Mitra (Mitra) brinkae Salisbury & Kilburn, 1996

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Mitra brinkae Salisbury & Killburn, 1996

Distribution

Outer continental shelf of south-eastern Africa, from Zululand to north-eastern Transkei

  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificEast AfricaSouth Africa

Keywords

depth: continental shelf [ 250-280 m (only dead shells) ]
depth: continental slope 
substrate: sand 
substrate: sand 
substrate: shell-debris 

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Mitridae
                          Mitrinae
                            Mitra Lamarck, 1798
                              Mitra (Mitra) Lamarck, 1798
                                Mitra (Mitra) brinkae Salisbury & Kilburn, 1996

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=49269) created by Jason D. Weintraub on 2001-08-15. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-03-05.