Galapagos Species Database

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Neotiara muricata (Broderip, 1836)

Gasterópodo, Gastrpod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Mitroidea

Family
Mitridae

Genus
Neotiara

Species
muricata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Mitra (Nebularia) muricata (Broderip, 1836), Mitra marshalli Bartsch, 1931, Mitra muricata (Broderip, 1836), Tiara muricata Broderip, 1836 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

References

  • Cernohorsky, W.O. (1976) The Mitridae of the world. Part 1. The subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528, pls. 1-466
  • Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
  • Finet, Y. (1985) Preliminary faunal list of the marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., Section des Invertébrés récents, Studiedocumenten 20: 1-50.
  • 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.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.

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