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Mitra (Pusia) zythochroa Melvill, 1888

Gastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae
Current Name: Vexillum catenatum (Broderip, 1836)
[WoRMS: 208311]
Type Status: Holotype
Collection: Melvill-Tomlin
Accession No.: NMW.1955.158.00430
Preparations: Dry shells
No. of Specimens: 1
Locality: Panama
Collecting Details: (ex.Coll.) G. B. Sowerby; J. C. Melvill

References


Reference
Citation
Reference available
Melvill, J. C. 1888b. Descriptions of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 281-288; pl. 2, figs 11-25. [287; pl. 2, fig. 24] Cited
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Original Description
Type Designation

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Trew, A. 1987. James Cosmo Melvill's New Molluscan Names. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 1-84pp [72] Cited

Detailed Locality

Verbatim Locality
Label: Panama.
Melvill, 1888: None.
Point Locality:
Country: Panama
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Expedition:
Ex. Collection: G. B. Sowerby; J. C. Melvill
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Classification

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Family
Animalia Mollusca Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Neogastropoda Muricoidea Costellariidae

Remarks

Melvill, 1888b: 288:
“NOTE.- The types of the foregoing species are in my collection, and with the exception of
M. percnodictya and rhodinosphaera, of each of which only two specimens are known, and M. aerumnosa and fulvosulcata, of which there are several, are all represented as yet by single unique specimens”.

Record last modified - 27/06/2018