Type Specimens | Mollusca Types in Great Britain
Type Specimens
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    [0] =>  Oliver, Salvi & Al-Kandari
    [1] => (Marrat
    [2] => (Strebel MS) Melvill & Standen
    [3] => (Thiele)
    [4] => [Baird, or Gray]
    [5] => [Benson] Sowerby
    [6] => [Hanley] Reeve
    [7] => Adams
    [8] => Adams & Angas
    [9] => Adams in-Montagu
    [10] => Adams, A. & Reeve
    [11] => Adams, H.
    [12] => Alder
    [13] => Alder & Hancock
    [14] => Alder in Forbes & Hanley
    [15] => Ancey
    [16] => Ancey & Sykes in Ancey
    [17] => Ancey in Bavay & Dautzenberg
    [18] => Ancey in Garrett
    [19] => Ancey in Pilsbry
    [20] => Ancey in Vignon
    [21] => Ancey in Westerlund
    [22] => Anderson
    [23] => Angas
    [24] => Anthony
    [25] => Arango
    [26] => Bartsch
    [27] => Bavay
    [28] => Bavay & Dautzenburg
    [29] => Bean
    [30] => Bean in Thorpe
    [31] => Beddome
    [32] => Benson
    [33] => Bernardi
    [34] => Biggs
    [35] => Boettger
    [36] => Bouchet & Warén
    [37] => Bourne
    [38] => Broderip
    [39] => Broderip in Broderip & Sowerby 1st
    [40] => Brown & Verdcourt
    [41] => Brown & Weil (de Boury mss.)
    [42] => Bullen
    [43] => Burch & Burch
    [44] => Burnup
    [45] => Carpenter
    [46] => Cate
    [47] => Caudwell, Jones & Killeen
    [48] => Caziot
    [49] => Chaper
    [50] => Chaster
    [51] => Chen, Linse, Copley & Rogers
    [52] => Chesney & Oliver
    [53] => Clapp
    [54] => Clench
    [55] => Clench & Aguayo
    [56] => Clench & Turner
    [57] => Clessin
    [58] => Clover
    [59] => Coles & Nekola
    [60] => Collier
    [61] => Connolly
    [62] => Cooper & Preston
    [63] => Craven
    [64] => Crosse
    [65] => Crosse & Fischer
    [66] => Crosse & Fisher
    [67] => Crowley
    [68] => Crowley & Pain
    [69] => Crowley, Pain & Woodward
    [70] => Dall
    [71] => Dance
    [72] => Dance, Moolenbeek & Dekker
    [73] => Dautzenberg
    [74] => de boury
    [75] => de Folin
    [76] => de Mattia & Neiber
    [77] => de Mattia, Neiber & Groh
    [78] => Dean
    [79] => Dekker & Goud
    [80] => Dekker, Moolenbeek & Dance
    [81] => Deschamps
    [82] => Dillwyn
    [83] => Drouet & Chaper
    [84] => Dunker
    [85] => Dupuis & Putzeys
    [86] => Eliot
    [87] => Engl
    [88] => F. G. Thompson & Dance
    [89] => Farran
    [90] => Forbes & Hanley
    [91] => Ford
    [92] => Fulton
    [93] => G. B. Sowerby I
    [94] => Gaskoin
    [95] => Gassies
    [96] => Germain
    [97] => Geyer
    [98] => Gittenberger
    [99] => Gittenberger & Boeters
    [100] => Gittenberger & Goud
    [101] => Glover & Taylor
    [102] => Gmelin
    [103] => Godwin-Austen
    [104] => Goodrich
    [105] => Gray
    [106] => Gray in Sowerby
    [107] => Gredler
    [108] => Gude
    [109] => Gyngell
    [110] => Haas
    [111] => Hanley
    [112] => Hanley & Theobald
    [113] => Hedley
    [114] => Hemphill in Binney
    [115] => Henderson
    [116] => Henderson & Daniels
    [117] => Henderson & Simpson
    [118] => Hervier
    [119] => Heude
    [120] => Heurde
    [121] => Higgins & Marrat
    [122] => Holyoak & Seddon
    [123] => Houart
    [124] => Hoyle
    [125] => Iredale
    [126] => Iredale in Melvill & Standen
    [127] => Issel
    [128] => J. S. Miller
    [129] => Jackson
    [130] => Jeffreys
    [131] => Jones & Preston
    [132] => Jordan
    [133] => Jordan 
    [134] => Kennard
    [135] => Kennard & Woodward
    [136] => Kiener
    [137] => Killeen & Oliver
    [138] => Killeen & Turner
    [139] => King
    [140] => Kobelt
    [141] => Lancaster
    [142] => Layard
    [143] => Layard in Kobelt
    [144] => Lea
    [145] => Linnaeus
    [146] => Lowe
    [147] => Marie
    [148] => Marrat
    [149] => Marshall
    [150] => Martyn
    [151] => Maynard
    [152] => Maynard & Clapp in Maynard
    [153] => Melvil
    [154] => Melvill
    [155] => Melvill & Ponsonby
    [156] => Melvill & Standen
    [157] => Melvill & Sykes
    [158] => Melvill in Tryon
    [159] => Möllendorff
    [160] => Montagu
    [161] => Monterosato
    [162] => Moolenbeek & Dance
    [163] => Moore
    [164] => Morelet
    [165] => Morelet & H. Drouët
    [166] => Moricand
    [167] => Morrison
    [168] => Müller
    [169] => Neubert
    [170] => Nevill, G. & H.
    [171] => Newcomb
    [172] => Noronha
    [173] => Nuttall
    [174] => Oliver
    [175] => Oliver & Abou-Zeid
    [176] => Oliver & Chesney
    [177] => Oliver & Drewery
    [178] => Oliver & Glover
    [179] => Oliver & Holmes
    [180] => Oliver & Levin
    [181] => Oliver & Lutzen
    [182] => Oliver & Picken
    [183] => Oliver & Taylor
    [184] => Oliver & Vestheim
    [185] => Oliver & Zuschin
    [186] => Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha
    [187] => Oliver, Salvi & Al-Kandari
    [188] => Pain
    [189] => Pain & Paul
    [190] => Pallary
    [191] => Pease
    [192] => Peuile
    [193] => Pfaffer, Rowson, Tattersfield & Neubert
    [194] => Pfeiffer
    [195] => Phillips
    [196] => Pilsbry
    [197] => Pilsbry & Ferriss
    [198] => Pilsbry & Henderson
    [199] => Pilsbry & Hinkley
    [200] => Pilsbry & Hirase
    [201] => Ponder
    [202] => Powell
    [203] => Preston
    [204] => Pulteney
    [205] => Putzeys
    [206] => Ramsden
    [207] => Reeve
    [208] => Reidel & Norris
    [209] => Rodrigues, Oliver & Cunha
    [210] => Rolle
    [211] => Rowson
    [212] => Rowson & Symondson
    [213] => Rowson & Tattersfield
    [214] => Rowson & Van Goethem
    [215] => Salisbury
    [216] => Schilder
    [217] => Schlesch
    [218] => Schwabe
    [219] => Seddon
    [220] => Seddon & Aparicio
    [221] => Seddon & Killeen
    [222] => Shackleford & Spence
    [223] => Smith
    [224] => Smith, E. A.
    [225] => Smythe & Oliver
    [226] => Sowerby
    [227] => Sowerby 1st
    [228] => Sowerby 2nd
    [229] => Sowerby 2nd in Reeve
    [230] => Sowerby 3rd
    [231] => Spence
    [232] => Sterki
    [233] => Strebel
    [234] => Stutchbury
    [235] => Swainson
    [236] => Swainson in Sowerby 1st
    [237] => Sykes
    [238] => T. Brown
    [239] => Tattersfield
    [240] => Tattersfield & Rowson
    [241] => Taylor
    [242] => Taylor & Glover
    [243] => Theobald
    [244] => Thiele
    [245] => Thompson
    [246] => Tiberi
    [247] => Tomlin
    [248] => Tomlin & Peile
    [249] => Tomlin & Shackleford
    [250] => Torre
    [251] => Torre & Bartsch
    [252] => Torre & Clench
    [253] => Torre & Ramsden in Ramsden
    [254] => Turton
    [255] => van Aartsen & Carrozza
    [256] => Verdcourt
    [257] => Vermeulen
    [258] => von Cosel
    [259] => Walker
    [260] => Watson
    [261] => Westerlund
    [262] => Wheeler
    [263] => Whitehead
    [264] => Williams
    [265] => Wollaston
    [266] => Woodward
    [267] => Wright
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Keyword: Mitra First Prev Records 1 - 43 of 43 Next Last
Mitra (Strigatella) abacophora Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Strigatella) abacophora Melvill, 1888
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra aerumnosa Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra aerumnosa Melvill, 1888
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Algoa Bay, South Africa [Republic of South Africa]

Lectotype
Mitra (Mitreola) astyridiformis Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Nebularia) luctuosa A. Adams, 1853
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra (Strigatella) baldwinii Melvill, 1899
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Pusia) moelleri (Küster, 1840)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Ad insulus Hawaiienses (Baldwin). [United States of America]

Lectotype
Mitra bela Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra bela Melvill, 1888
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: ?. ...its locality is to be sought for in the Arctic or Antarctic regions.

Holotype
Mitra (Turricula) caloxesta Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Pusia) caloxestum (Melvill, 1888)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Andaman Isles [India]

Holotype
Mitra cerithina Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Costellaria radius (Reeve, 1845)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra (Costellaria) chariessa Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Costellaria) scitulum (A. Adams, 1853)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra cretacea Sowerby 3rd, 1874
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Strigatella) pellisserpentis pellisserpentis Reeve, 1844
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Mauritius [Mauritius]

Holotype
Mitra (Costellaria) dorotheae Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Vexillum lucidum (Reeve, 1845)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinelloidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands (from the title) [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s) (figured)
Mitra (Costellaria) eudianthe Melvill, 1895
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Costellaria modestum (Reeve, 1845)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra (Pusia) evelynae Melvill, 1895
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Pusia) millecostatum (Broderip, 1836)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Mauritius [Mauritius]

Holotype
Mitra exquisita Sowerby 3rd, 1889
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Costellaria) suluense (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Port Blair, Andaman Island [Andaman Islands (India)]

Holotype
Mitra floridula Sowerby 3rd, 1874
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra aurora floridula Sowerby, 1874
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Mauritius [Mauritius]

Lectotype
Mitra fortis Melvill, 1925
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra orientalis Griffith & Pidgeon , 1834
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Probably western coasts of S. America (Peru or Chili)

Holotype
Mitra (Pusia) geoffreyana Melvill, 1910
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum geoffreyanum (Melvill, 1910)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Persian Gulf, off Sheikh-Shuaib Island

Lectotype
Mitra (Costellaria) exasperata var. hadfieldi Gmelin, 1791
Current name: Vexillum exasperatum
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinelloidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands

Syntype(s)
Mitra exasperata var. hadfieldi Melvill & Standen, 1895
Current name: Vexillum exasperatum Gmelin, 1791
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinelloidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Mitra (Volutomitra) honesta Melvill & Standen, 1895
Current name: Vexillum honestum (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Mitridae

Type Locality: Lifu

Syntype(s)
Mitra idae Melvill, 1893
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra idae Melvill, 1893
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Point Loma, Lower California [Mexico]

Lectotype
Mitra illecebra Melvill, 1927
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Thala milium (Reeve, 1845)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Straits of Korea, at 40 fathoms, obtained during the cruise of H.M.S. Sylvia in 1875, under command of Captain St John.

Holotype
Mitra maculosa Reeve, 1844
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Strigatella) litterata Lamarck, 1811
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Reeve, 1844: Australia; and Island of Annaa, Pacific Ocean (found at the latter place on the reefs). Cernohorsky, 1976: Indian Ocean, and this is further restricted to Mauritius (specimens in Powell coll.)

Lectotype
Mitra (Costellaria) malcolmensis Melvill & Standen, 1901
Current name: Vexillum malcolmense Melvill & Standen, 1901
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinelloidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Persian Gulf: Linjah 3.5 fathoms, mud. Elphinstone Inlet, Mussandam. 15 fathoms, mud. Gulf of Oman: Malcom Inlet (Kubbatt Ghazira), near Maskat. 24 fathoms, mud. Lat 24*55'N., long. 57*59'E. 37 fathoms, sand and mud; abundant. Lat. 24*'5N., long. 57*35'E., 205 fathoms, mud.

Paratype(s) (possible)
Mitra (Cancilla) marionae Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Ziba annulata (Reeve, 1844)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra mauritiana Sowerby 3rd, 1874
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Scabricola (Scabricola) lacunosa (Reeve, 1844)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Mauritius [Mauritius]

Holotype
Mitra melvilli Sowerby 3rd, 1882
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Nebularia) sowerbyi melvilli Sowerby, 1882
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra milium Reeve, 1845
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Thala milium (Reeve, 1845)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Straits of Korea, at 40 fathoms, obtained during the cruise of H.M.S. Sylvia in 1875, under command of Captain St John

Neotype
Voluta mitra Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Mitra mitra Linnaeus, 1758
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality:

Lectotype & Paralectotypes
Mitra nassoides Sowerby 3rd, 1874
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Strigatella) pellisserpentis pellisserpentis Reeve, 1844
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Mauritius [Mauritius]

Holotype
Mitra (Costellaria) nitidissima Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Vexillum nitidissimum (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinelloidea : Turbinelloidea

Type Locality: [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s)
Mitra (Costellaria) ochracea Hervier, 1897
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Costellaria) ochraceum (Hervier, 1897)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Nova Caledonia. Vidi 3 specimina, a R. P. Montrouzier, S. M., collecta. [New Caledonia]

Lectotype
Mitra (Volutomitra) porcellana Melvill & Standen, 1912
National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Current name: Volvarina porcellana (Melvill & Standen)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : [unassigned] Neogastropoda : Marginellidae

Type Locality: Scotia Bay, South Orkneys, 9-10 fathoms, Station 325; also trawl Burdwood Bank, 56 fathoms Station 346

Syntype(s)
Mitra pruinosa Reeve, 1844
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Neocancilla hebes (Reeve, 1845 )
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: This is another peculiarly characteristic species for which I have no locality

Holotype
Mitra rugosa Swainson in Sowerby 1st, 1825
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum tankervillei (Melvill, 1888)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Mitra (Turricula) sybillae Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Costellaria) sybillae (Melvill, 1888)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Andaman Islands [India]

Holotype
Mitra tankervillei Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum tankervillei (Melvill, 1888)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Swainson in Sowerby, 1825: None; Melvill, 1888: Its locality is unknown, but most probably it is a native of Eastern seas. [Sri Lanka]

Holotype
Mitra telum Sowerby 2nd, 1874
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens Broderip, 1836
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Barkley Island, Mauritius [Republic of Mauritius]

Holotype
Mitra tensa Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra tensa Melvill, 1888
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: An Antarctic shell of which the exact locality is unfortunately unknown [Antarctica]

Holotype
Mitra (Vulpecula) tomlini Melvill, 1925
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Costellaria) suluense (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Doubtless eastern tropics but not precisely known [Eastern Tropics]

Lectotype
Mitra transenna Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Costellaria) exasperatum (Gmelin, 1791)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: East Indies

Holotype
Mitra (Vulpecula) utravis Melvill, 1925
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Vexillum) curviliratum (Sowerby, 1874)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Lectotype
Mitra xerampelina Melvill, 1895
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum (Protoelongata) xerampelina (Melvill, 1895)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: Aden [Yemen]

Holotype
Mitra (Pusia) zythochroa Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Vexillum catenatum (Broderip, 1836)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Costellariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper [Panama]

Holotype
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