Species Strigatella retusa (Lamarck, 1811)

• Mitra retusa 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 [217].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 1108/23, Veeckens Bay, South Pagi [= Pagai] I., Indonesia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528.
• Mitra virgata 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. 25, fig. 197a only].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1874.12.11.141 (this may or may not correspond to the designated lectotype), Luzon, Philippines.
• Mitra tornatelloides Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 28-39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 38, fig. 316].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1967898, Philippine Islands.
• Mitra amanda Bartsch, P. 1918. New marine mollusks from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 31: 181-188 [183].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1967898, Dumurug Point, Cataingan Bay, Masbate, Philippines.
• Mitra signa Bartsch, P. 1919. Mitra amanda: A correction. Nautilus 33(1): 31 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype 231815, Dumurug Pt., Cataingan Bay, Masbate, Philippines.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitra (Strigatella) retusa Lamarck, 1811. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [152]
• Strigatella retusa (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

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific; also Coral Sea region 15 (AMS C.372977); region 18 (AMS C.326136)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, coral reef, intertidal, marine, rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks and coral

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [481, pl. 432]

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1984. Contribution to the knowledge of Indian marine molluscs. I. Family Mitridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 61: 1-48 [29]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [152, pl. 33, figs 4a-b]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [180, fig. 3] (Blunt Mitre)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED