Pterygia morrisoni

Pterygia morrisoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1][2][3]

Pterygia morrisoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Cylindromitrinae
Genus: Pterygia
Species:
P. morrisoni
Binomial name
Pterygia morrisoni
Marrow, 2016

Distribution

This species occurs in Dampier Archipelago.[1]

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Pterygia morrisoni Marrow, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869718 on 2019-01-04
  2. Marrow M.P. (2016). Two new species of the Mitridae (Gastropoda) from Western Australia. Conchylia. 46(1-4): 17-23.
  3. Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio 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(2): 253-337.


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