Mitromorpha dormitor

Species of gastropod

Mitromorpha dormitor
Drawing of a shell of Mitromorpha dormitor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. dormitor
Binomial name
Mitromorpha dormitor
(Sowerby I, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Columbella dormitor Sowerby I, 1844
  • Columbella dortimor [sic] (misspelling)
  • Columbella purpurascens Adams, C.B., 1845
  • Lovellona dormitor (Sowerby I, 1844)
  • Minipyrene dortimor [sic]

Mitromorpha dormitor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1] The length of the shell attains 7.3 mm. This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Curaçao and St Vincent.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Mitromorpha dormitor (Sowerby I, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Mitromorpha dormitor". Gastropods.com.

Further reading

  • Sowerby Jr, G. B. "Descriptions of some new species of Columbella, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esp." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mitromorpha dormitor.
  • "Lovellona dormitor". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
Taxon identifiers
Mitromorpha dormitor
Columbella dormitor


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