Pyramimitridae

Pyramimitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Mitroidea.[1]

Pyramimitridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Pyramimitridae
Cossmann, 1901
Genera

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Genera

Genera in the family Pyramimitridae include:

  • Endiatoma Cossmann, 1896
  • Hortia Lozouet, 1999
  • Pyramimitra Conrad, 1865
  • Teremitra Kantor, Lozouet, Puillandre & Bouchet, 2014
  • Vaughanites Woodring, 1928

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Pyramimitridae Cossmann, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746699 on 2020-02-03
  • Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Puillandre N. & Bouchet P. (2014) Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific. Zootaxa 3754(3): 239–276
  • Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
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