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Mitra (Strigatella) abacophora Melvill, 1888

Gastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae
Turner, H. 2007
Type Status: Holotype
Collection: Melvill-Tomlin
Accession No.: NMW.1955.158.00096
Preparations: Dry shells
No. of Specimens: 1
Locality: No locality.
Collecting Details: 4/12/1887, (ex.Coll.) J. C. Melvill

References


Reference
Citation
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Melvill, J. C. 1888b. Descriptions of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 281-288; pl. 2, figs 11-25. [286; pl. 2, fig. 22] Cited
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Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part 1. The subfamily Mitrinae. 3(17). Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 273-528pp; pls 248-466 [311-312] Cited
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Trew, A. 1987. James Cosmo Melvill's New Molluscan Names. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 1-84pp [22] Cited
Thorrson, W. & Salisbury, R. 2006. Living Mitridae. Internet Hawaiian Shell News, Feature-1 Section. Cited
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Turner, H. 2007. Six new species of Mitridae from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with remarks on Mitra abacophora Melvill, 1888 (Neogastropoda: Muricoidea). Contributions to Natural History. Scientific papers from the Natural History Museum Bern. 10: 1-39; figs 1-35. [6; fig. 7] Cited
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Detailed Locality

Verbatim Locality
Label: None.
Melvill, 1888: None.
Point Locality: No locality.
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Ex. Collection: J. C. Melvill
Collecting date: 4/12/1887
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Classification

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Phylum
Class
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Family
Animalia Mollusca Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Neogastropoda Muricoidea Mitridae
Subfamily: Mitrinae

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