Carinomitra typha

Short description: Species of gastropod

Carinomitra typha

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Mitroidea
Family:  | Mitridae
Genus:  | Carinomitra
Species:  |

C. typha

Binomial name
Carinomitra typha

(Reeve, 1845)

Synonyms

* Mitra (Strigatella) typha Reeve, 1845
* Mitra micans Reeve, 1845
* Mitra tenuis G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
* Mitra typha Reeve, 1845
* Strigatella typha (Reeve, 1845) · unaccepted
* Thala alba Pease, 1868

Carinomitra typha is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

The shell is transparent, horny, very pyramidal, with a light fulvous band on the upper part of the whorls. The spire is acuminate. The aperture equals the spire in length. [2]

## Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines .

## References

1. ↑ Carinomitra typha (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
2. ↑ Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379.

## External links

* Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
* Pease, W. H. (1868 ("1867") ). Descriptions of marine Gasteropodæ, inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 3(3): 211-222
* Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337

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