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Mitreola
Mitreola labratula Lamarck 1803
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Tribe:	Lyriini
Genus:	Mitreola Swainson, 1833
Synonyms
Eneata † Mitra (Mitreola) Swainson, 1833 Mitreala (misspelling)

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include:

• † Mitreola brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014
• † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom)
• † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
• † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989

Species brought into synonymy

• † Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
• † Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
• † Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

See also

• Mitreola (plant)

References

1. ^ Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
2. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
3. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
4. Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
5. GBIF : Mitreola labratula

External links

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281

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