Mitreola

Mitreola
Mitreola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Volutinae
Tribe: Lyriini
Genus: Mitreola
Swainson, 1833
Synonyms[1] [2]
  • Eneata
  • Mitreala (misspelling)

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include: [3]

  • Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [4]
  • Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
  • Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

References

  1. ^ a b Mitreola Swainson, 1833.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527471  on 17 December 2010.
  2. ^ The Paleobiology Database
  3. ^ The Paleobiology Database
  4. ^ GBIF : Mitreola labratula
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281