Subspecies Quasimitra nubila nubila (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta nubila Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3450].

  Type data:

   Lectotype.
• Mitra versicolor Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222 [199].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MHNG.
• Mitra nivosa Swainson, W. 1822. A Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Shells, which formed the Celebrated Collection of the late Mrs Bligh. With an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London : Publisher unknown 78 pp. [16].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, coasts of New Holland and Pacific Ocean Islands.
• Mitra nebulosa Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 1-27 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 1, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Madagascar; Anaa Is.
• Mitra propinqua Adams, A. 1853. Descriptions of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, Planaxis, and Eulima from the Cummingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 267-272 [270].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1967846.
• Mitra erronea Dohrn, H. von 1861. Zur Kenntnis von Mitra. Malakozoologische Blätter 8 [134].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Indian Ocean; New Holland; Madagascar; Anaa Is.
• Mitra brettinghami Smith, E.A. 1906. Notes on some species of Mitridae, with the description of M. brettinghami, n. sp. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 124-125 [124].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1967937.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitra (Mitra) nubila (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [146]
• Quasimitra nubila nubila (Gmelin, 1791).

 

Introduction

Wilson (1993) records this species from Darwin, probably based on the single specimen of this species in the Australian Museum collection, labelled 'collected in Darwin in 1870'. In the absence of later records, this record can be regarded as erroneous.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Shows a preference for clean and usually coarse coral sand

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [313, pl. 267]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [146, pl. 31, figs 21a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	27-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED