''Calcimitra'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitres or mitre shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, widely distributed marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.
Both the Latin name and the common name a ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Calcimitra'' include:
* ''
Calcimitra arnoldeyasi''
* ''
Calcimitra brinkae''
* ''
Calcimitra brunetta''
(Chino & Herrmann, 2015)
* ''
Calcimitra chiangfucius''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
* ''
Calcimitra chiangfucius''
* ''
Calcimitra christinae''
* ''
Calcimitra glaphyria''
* ''
Calcimitra hilli''
* ''
Calcimitra invicta''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
* ''
Calcimitra invicta''
* ''
Calcimitra kingtsio''
* ''
Calcimitra labecula''
* ''
Calcimitra lussii''
* ''
Calcimitra marrowi''
* ''
Calcimitra meyeriana''
* ''
Calcimitra morchii''
* ''
Calcimitra philippeboucheti''
Thach, 2020
* ''
Calcimitra philosopha''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
* ''
Calcimitra poppei''
* ''
Calcimitra salva''
* ''
Calcimitra soela''
Marrow, 2020
* ''
Calcimitra subflava''
* ''
Calcimitra taiwanbale''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
* ''
Calcimitra toi''
S.-I Huang & Q.-Y. Chuo, 2019
* ''
Calcimitra triplicata''
* ''
Calcimitra verweyi''
* ''
Calcimitra wuhuai''
S.-I Huang & Q.-Y. Chuo, 2019
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Calcimitra chuoi'' (S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017) : synonym of ''
Cancillopsis chuoi''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
References
* Huang S.-I. (2011) Calcimitra, a new genus of deep-water Mitridae (Gastropoda: Mitridae) with the description of five new species from Taiwan and the Philippines. Visaya 3(4): 88-97
External links
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
Gastropod genera
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