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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Costellariidae

Mitromica foveata (Sowerby II, 1874)


Range: 32.3°N to 20.5°N; 89.7°W to 64.8°W
Depth: 0 to 34 m (live 0 to 3 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 8.3  mm

Synonymy

Mitra foveata Sowerby II, 1874
Thala foveata (Sowerby II, 1874) 
Mitra floridana Dall, 1884
Thala floridana (Dall, 1884) 

Details


Mitra foveata Sowerby II, 1874f, p. 16, pl. 371, fig. 408
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown [Key West, Florida (by neotype designation of Rosenberg & Salisbury (2003)]
Range: 32.3°N to 20.5°N; 88.3°W to 64.8°W
Depth: 0 to 34 m (live 0 to 3 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 8.3 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida, West Florida, Florida Keys; Mexico: Yucatan State, Quintana Roo; Bermuda, Bahamas: San Salvador (Watling Is.); Cuba
References: Waller (1973) DNE; Rosenberg & Salisbury (2003) dLlSWTM
Comments: As foveata in text, foveta on plate; foveata is correct by first revisers' choice of Rosenberg & Salisbury (2003).
Combining Genera:  Thala

Mitra (Mitromorpha?) floridana Dall, 1884, p. 327, pl. 10, fig. 12
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Key West
Range: 32.3°N to 24.6°N; 89.7°W to 64.8°W
Depth: 0 to 11 m (live 0 to 1 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 6 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida, West Florida, Florida Keys; Mexico: Alacran Reef; Bermuda, Bahamas
References: Rice & Kornicker (1965:172) W; Lyons (1989b) d; Rosenberg & Salisbury (2003) C
Comments: To 27.3°N in Florida (Lyons 1989b).
Combining Genera:  Thala

Mitra florilana sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Error for floridana by Rice & Kornicker (1965:172).


Partial List of References

Dall, W. H. 1884. On a collection of shells sent from Florida by Mr. Henry Hemphill Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6(384) 318-342, pl. 10. [Stated date: -- --- 1883; true date: -- Jan 1884.]
Sowerby, G. B., II. 1874. A monograph of the genus Mitra Thesaurus Conchyliorum 4 46 pp., pls. 352-379

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