Mitra cretacea G. B. Sowerby 3rd, 1874 | NMW.1955.158.00396 | Mollusca Types in Britain & Ireland
Type Specimen

Mitra cretacea G. B. Sowerby 3rd, 1874
Holotype

Sowerby, G. B. (3rd). 1874a. A monograph of the genus Mitra. Thesaurus Cochyliorum. 3(31-32). pp.1-46. pls 1-28 [21; pl. 26, figs 577-578] [Original Description] [Type Designation]
Current name: Mitra (Strigatella) pellisserpentis pellisserpentis Reeve, 1844
Classification: Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae
Type Status: Holotype [Verified - Harriet Wood ]
Collection: Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff (Melvill-Tomlin)
Catalogue No.: NMW.1955.158.00396
No. specimens: (Dry shells)
Type Locality: Mauritius [Mauritius]
Collecting details: Sir David Barclay; J. C. Melvill
References

References are listed in chronological order. References containing the "Original Description" or "Type Designation" of Mitra cretacea G. B. Sowerby 3rd, 1874 are highlighted in red.

Sowerby, G. B. (3rd). 1874a. A monograph of the genus Mitra. Thesaurus Cochyliorum. 3(31-32). pp.1-46. pls 1-28 [21; pl. 26, figs 577-578] [Cited] [Figured] [Original Description] [Type Designation]
Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part 1. The subfamily Mitrinae. 3(17). Indo-Pacific Mollusca. pp.273-528. figs.pls 248-466 [497] [Cited]
Specimen Data
Point Locality: Mauritius
Continent: Africa
Country: Mauritius
State/Prov.: -
County: -
City/Town: -
Island Group: -
Island: -
Water Body: Indian Ocean
Sea Area.: West Indian Ocean
Collected by: -
Collecting date: -
Ex. Collector: Sir David Barclay; J. C. Melvill
Expedition/Survey: -
Vessel: -
Sampling Method: -
Field No.: -
Field Notes: -
Altitude: -
Depth: -
OS Grid Ref.: -
Lat./Long.(verbatim): -
Decimal Degress: -
Curatorial Contact

Harriet Wood
Collection Manager: Mollusca
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP

Email: Harriet Wood
Tel: +44 (0)29 2057 3244

Publishing on these specimens?
When referring to Museum specimens in a publication, please include the accession number and the name of the holding institution. Please also cite this website where appropriate. The recommended citation is:

Ablett J., Brown C., Gallichan J., Gordon D., Holmes A. M., Hunter T., Machin R., Morgenroth H., Oliver P. G., Petts R., Pye S., Reilly M., Rowson B., Salvador A., Sutcliffe R., Turner J. A., Wood H. 2019. Mollusca Types in Great Britain. Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales / Natural History Museum. Available online at https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk [Accessed:  ].

To help us keep it up-to-date, please contact us if you publish on any of the included specimens. In particular we ask to be informed of the designation of lectotypes or neotypes for the included species-group taxa, or of other alterations made to the type status of the included specimens.

Tags

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License .

Copyright information is included with each image. Copyright is usually with the holding institution.