Mitromorphidae
Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.[1][2]
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| Shell of Anarithma sublachryma | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mitromorphidae T. L. Casey, 1904 |
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Bouchet, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Mitromorphinae (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae) to the rank of family. This was based on a cladistic analysis of shell morphology, radular characteristics, anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments.
Description
The Mitromorphidae have small to medium-sized shells with a high biconic mitriform shape, a paucispiral or multispiral protoconch up to 4.5 whorls, a short or indistinct siphonal canal, narrow aperture with up to 3 columellar pleats, indistinct anal sinus on a weakly pronounced subsutural ramp, fairly smooth surface with spiral sculptural elements. There is no operculum, and the radula is relatively short, hypodermic in character with awl-shaped teeth, a swollen solid basal region, and may have a weak barb at the terminal end of the radular tooth.
Genera
This is a list of the accepted names of genera in the family Mitromorphidae (the main reference for recent species is the World Register of Marine Species).[3]
- Anarithma Iredale, 1916
- Arielia Shasky, 1961
- Cymakra Gardner, 1937
- † Itia Marwick, 1931
- Lovellona Iredale, 1917
- Maorimorpha Powell, 1939
- † Mitrellatoma Powell, 1942
- Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
- Scrinium Hedley, 1922
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Ariella Shasky, 1961: synonym of Arielia Shasky, 1961
- Citharopsis Pease, 1868: synonym of Anarithma Iredale, 1916
- † Clinomitra Bellardi, 1889 : synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
- † Diptychomitra Bellardi, 1889 : synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
- Helenella Casey, 1904: synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
- Mitramorpha : synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865 (variant spelling)
- Mitrithara Hedley, 1922: synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
- Mitrolumna Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883: synonym of Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865
- Vexiariella Shuto, 1983: synonym of Arielia Shasky, 1961
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