Species Quasimitra puncticulata (Lamarck, 1811)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra puncticulata 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 [198].

  Type data:

   Holotype MHNG 1102/43, Indian Ocean.
• Mitra diadema Swainson, W. 1822. Zoological Illustrations; or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting Animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists. Series 1. London : Baldwin, Cradock & Joy Vol. 3 pls 84-134. [9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitra (Nebularia) puncticulata Lamarck, 1811. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [149]
• Quasimitra puncticulata (Lamarck, 1811). —
  Fedosov, A.E., Puillandre, N, Herrmann, M., Kantor, Y., Loverio, M. Dgebuadze, P., Modica, M.V. & Bouchet, P. 2018. The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 253-337

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [447, pl. 396]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [149, pl. 31, fig. 13, pl. 32, figs 1a-c]

 

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [158, pl. 159] (Punctured Mitre)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	14-Dec-2011	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED