Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Mitroidea > Family Mitridae > Subfamily Mitrinae

Mitra Lamarck, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mitra (Mitra)*	Lamarck, 1798	synonym

Children

Mitra columbulae Brusina, 1865

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: miters; Mitras mitres sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Mitra-Schnecken

Literature

original description	Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de M. de]. ([1798]). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques Testacés. Part 21 [Livraison 64, 29 April 1798]: pls. 287-390 , Paris: H. Agasse [date and publisher after Evenhuis & Petit 2003].
additional source	Cernohorsky, W. O. (1976). The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 3(17): 273-528.
status source	Opinion 885. (1969). Voluta mitra Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca: Gastropoda): Added to the Official List. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 26(3): 125-127.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mitra Lamarck, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138180