Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mitra mitra
mitra, mitra gigante, caracol de arena con manchas naranjas, Miter, episcopal, giant mitre, orange-spotted sand snail
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Muricoidea
Family
Mitridae
Genus
Mitra
Species
mitra
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Mitra (Mitra) mitra (Linnaeus, 1758); Mitra carmelita Röding, 1798; Mitra episcopalis (Linnaeus, 1758); Voluta mitra Linnaeus, 1758; Voluta mitra episcopalis Linnaeus, 1758 (Horton et al., 2021); CDRS: 494.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
- Sphon, G.G. (1969) Notes on the Mitridae of the eastern Pacific - II. The genus Thala, with the description of a new species. The Veliger 12(1): 84-88.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mitra mitra", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10428. Accessed 31 October 2026.