Strigatella testacea

Strigatella testacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Strigatella testacea
Sowerby's illustration accompanying Reeve's 1844 description.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. testacea
Binomial name
Strigatella testacea Broderip, 1836[1][2]
Synonyms[1]
Mitra antoni Dohrn, 1860[3] Mitra testacea Broderip, 1836

Taxonomy

William Broderip described the species as Mitra testacea in 1836; the holotype had been collected by Hugh Cuming.[2]

Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn described M. antoni in 1860 from a specimen also in Cuming's collection.[3] Dohrn classified this species as a junior synonym of M. testacea in 1861.[4] Dohrn's M. antoni should not be confused with M. antonii Küster, 1839, sometimes taken to be its senior homonym.[1]

George Washington Tryon proposed that both M. bulimoides Reeve, 1844 and M. badia Reeve, 1844 are junior synonyms of M. testacea,[5] but this has not been accepted.[6][1]

Walter O. Cernohorsky proposed that M. obliqua Lesson, 1842 was a junior synonym of M. testacea,[6] but this also has not been accepted.[7][1]

Distribution

It has been found in the Kingsmill Islands, Cook Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Gambier Islands, and the Pitcairn Islands.[6]

Description

Its shell is a light reddish brown color,[8] and can grow to a length of 32 mm (1.3 in).[6]

References

1. Strigatella testacea (Broderip, 1836). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 December 2018.
2. Broderip, W. J. (1835). "Characters of New Genera and Species of Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3 (1): 193. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1835.tb01268.x.
3. Dohrn, H. (1860). "Description of New Species of Mitra from the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 368.
4. Dohrn, H. (1861). "Zur Kenntniss von Mitra". Malakozoologische Blätte. 8: 134.
5. Tyron, Jr., George W. (1882). Nassidæ, Turbinellidæ, Volutidæ, Mitridæ. Manual of Conchology. 4. Philadelphia. p. 127; Pl. 27, Fig. 110.
6. Cernohorsky, Walter O. (1976). "The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae". Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 3 (17): 434–435.
7. Tröndlé, Jean; Von Cosel, Rudo (2005). "Inventaire bibliographique des mollusques marins de l'Archipel des Marquises (Polynésie française)". Atoll Research Bulletin. 542: 303. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.542.265.
8. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1844). "Plate XIV". Monograph of the Genus Mitra. Conchologia Iconica. 2. London: Reeve, Brothers. Species 98.

Further reading

• Garrett, Andrew (1872). "List of Species of Mitridæ collected at Raratonga, Cook's Islands, with Notes, also Descriptions of new Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1872: 840.
• Sowerby, G. B. (1880). A Monograph of the Genus Mitra. Thesaurus Conchyliorum. 4. London: Sowerby. p. 7; Pl. 8, Fig. 103
• Garrett, Andrew (1880). "Catalogue of the Polynesian Mitridæ, with remarks on their geographical range, station, and descriptions of supposed new species". Journal of Conchology. 3 (1): 29.
• Couturier, Martial (1907). "Étude sur les mollusques gastropodes recueillis par M. L.-G. Seurat dans les archipels de Tahiti, Paumotu et Gambier". Journal de conchyliologie. 55 (2): 132.
• Dautzenberg, Ph.; Bouge, J.-L. (1933). "Les mollusques testacés marins des éstablissements français de l'Océanie (Suite)". Journal de conchyliologie. 77 (3): 193.