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Mitromorphidae
Sign in to saveMitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMitromorphidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 205
- With media
- 55
- Family
- Mitromorphidae
- Collections
- UCMP, CAS, TMAG, AM
- Recorded in
- United States, Philippines, Australia, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, South Africa, Japan
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Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Bouchet, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Mitromorphinae (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae) to the rank of family. This was based on a cladistic analysis of shell morphology, radular characteristics, anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments.
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