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Mitra (gastropod)
''Mitra'' is a large genus of medium to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae, the miter shells or mitre snails. This genus is named after the ecclesiastical headgear, the miter, because of the shells' general shape. These sea snails create shells that are considered attractive by shell collectors; the shells are solid, high-spired and are often colorful. Species Many species that were previously in the genus ''Mitra'' have been reassigned in the past years to other genera, including ''Calcimitra'', '' Gemmulimitra'', '' Isara'', ''Nebularia'', '' Neotiara'', '' Pseudonebularia'', '' Quasimitra'', '' Roseomitra'', ''Strigatella'' and ''Vexillum''. According to the World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitra Mitra
''Mitra mitra'', common name the episcopal miter, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters.Rosenberg, G. (2010). ''Mitra (Mitra) mitra'' (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208226 on 2010-12-12 Distribution Widespread in the Indo-Pacific, from East Africa, including Madagascar and the Red Sea, to eastern Polynesia. North to southern Japan, Wake Island and Hawaii, and south to Australia.Poutiers, J. M. (1998). Gastropods in: ''FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1.'' Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Rome, FAO, 1998. page 614. Habitat This species lives in intertidal and sublittoral zones, to a depth of around 80 m. Feeding ''Mitra mitra'' is known to be carnivorous, an active predator that feeds on smaller gastropods and bivalve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotiara
''Neotiara'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Mitrinae of the family Mitridae Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2018). Mitridae Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http: .... Species Species within the genus ''Neotiara'' include: * '' Neotiara crenata'' (Broderip, 1836) * '' Neotiara fultoni'' (E. A. Smith, 1892) * '' Neotiara gausapata'' (Reeve, 1845) * '' Neotiara lens'' (W. Wood, 1828) * '' Neotiara muricata'' (Broderip, 1836) * '' Neotiara nodulosa'' (Gmelin, 1791) * '' Neotiara pallida'' (Nowell-Usticke, 1959) * '' Neotiara rupicola'' (Reeve, 1844) * '' Neotiara sphoni'' (Shasky & G. B. Campbell, 1964) References 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 systemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vexillum Articulatum
''Vexillum articulatum'', common name the articulated mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. Description The length of the shell attains 11.4 mm. (Original description) The shell is shortly fusiform and somewhat ventricose. The whorl A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs). Whorls in nature File:Photograph and axial plane floral ...s are smooth, longitudinally rather obsoletely plicated, slightly tubercled in the middle. The shell is pale pinkish scarlet, encircled with a small white brown-articulated zone. The columella is four-plaited. The shell is pale pinkish scarlet, encircled with a small white brown articulated zone. Distribution This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. References * Sarasúa H. (1978). Especies nuevas de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quasimitra Latruncularia
''Quasimitra latruncularia'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2018). Mitridae Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http: ..., the miters or miter snails. Description Distribution References latruncularia Gastropods described in 1844 {{Mitridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitra Saldanha
''Mitra'' (Proto-Indo-Iranian: ''*mitrás'') is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity from which the names and some characteristics of Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra derive. The names (and occasionally also some characteristics) of these two older figures were subsequently also adopted for other figures: * A vrddhi-derived form of Sanskrit ''mitra'' gives Maitreya, the name of a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition. * In Hellenistic-era Asia Minor, Avestan Mithra was conflated with various local and Greek figures leading to several different variants of Apollo-Helios- Mithras- Hermes- Stilbon. * Via Greek and some Anatolian intermediate, the Avestan theonym also gave rise to Latin '' Mithras'', the principal figure of the first century Roman Mysteries of Mithras (also known as 'Mithraism'). * In Middle Iranian, the Avestan theonym evolved (among other Middle Iranian forms) into Sogdian ''Miši'', Middle Persian and Parthian ''Mihr'', and Bactrian Miuro (/mihru/). Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitra Brasiliensis
''Mitra'' (Proto-Indo-Iranian: ''*mitrás'') is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity from which the names and some characteristics of Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra derive. The names (and occasionally also some characteristics) of these two older figures were subsequently also adopted for other figures: * A vrddhi-derived form of Sanskrit ''mitra'' gives Maitreya, the name of a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition. * In Hellenistic-era Asia Minor, Avestan Mithra was conflated with various local and Greek figures leading to several different variants of Apollo-Helios- Mithras- Hermes- Stilbon. * Via Greek and some Anatolian intermediate, the Avestan theonym also gave rise to Latin '' Mithras'', the principal figure of the first century Roman Mysteries of Mithras (also known as 'Mithraism'). * In Middle Iranian, the Avestan theonym evolved (among other Middle Iranian forms) into Sogdian ''Miši'', Middle Persian and Parthian ''Mihr'', and Bactrian Miuro (/mihru/). Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur William Baden Powell
Arthur William Baden Powell (4 April 1901 – 1 July 1987) was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden". Biography Early life The name Baden had been a given name in a Powell family since 1731, when Susannah Powell née Thistlethwayte (1696–1762) gave to her child (1731–1792) the maiden name of her mother, Susannah Baden (1663–1692). The name Baden, particularly when associated with the surname Powell, became famous in 1900–1901, the year Arthur William Baden Powell was born, because of the siege of Mafeking, the most famous British action in the Second Boer War, which turned the British commander of the besieged, Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. Throughout the British Empire, babies were named after him. No family connection has yet been established between Arthur W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Register Of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialists on each group of organism. These taxonomists control the quality of the information, which is gathered from the primary scientific literature as well as from some external regional and taxon-specific databases. WoRMS maintains valid names of all marine organisms, but also provides information on synonyms and invalid names. It is an ongoing task to maintain the registry, since new species are constantly being discovered and described by scientists; in addition, the nomenclature and taxonomy of existing species is often corrected or changed as new research is constantly being published. Subsets of WoRMS content are made available, and can have separate badging and their own home/launch pages, as "subregisters", such as the ''World List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vexillum (gastropod)
''Vexillum'' is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae. This genus is not monophyletic. It is considered a "dumping ground" for an array of unrelated forms.Cernohorsky WO. 1966. ''A study of mitrid radulae and a tentative generic arrangement of the family Mitridae.'' The Veliger 9: 101–126 Species Species within the genus ''Vexillum'' include: * '' Vexillum acromiale'' (Hedley, 1915) * '' Vexillum acuminatum'' (Gmelin, 1791) * '' Vexillum acupictum'' (Reeve, 1845) * '' Vexillum adamsianum'' Cernohorsky, 1978 * '' Vexillum aemula'' (E. A. Smith, 1879) * '' Vexillum aequatoriense'' Herrmann & Stossier, 2011 * '' Vexillum albofulvum'' Herrmann, 2007 * '' Vexillum albolineatum'' Cossignani & Cossignani, 2007 * '' Vexillum albotaeniatum'' (Hervier, 1897) * '' Vexillum altisuturatum'' Chino & Herrmann, 2014 * '' Vexillum alvinobalani'' Guillot de Suduiraut, 1999 * '' Vexillum amabile'' (Reeve, 1845) * '' Vexillum aman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strigatella
''Strigatella'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Strigatellinae of the family (biology), family Mitridae. Species Species within the genus ''Strigatella'' include: * ''Strigatella abacophora'' (Melvill, 1888) * ''Strigatella amaura'' (Hervier, 1897) * ''Strigatella ambigua'' (Swainson, 1829) * ''Strigatella assimilis'' (Pease, 1868) * ''Strigatella aurantia'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Strigatella auriculoides'' (Reeve, 1845) * ''Strigatella aurora'' (Dohrn, 1861) * ''Strigatella coffea'' (Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829) * ''Strigatella colombelliformis'' (Kiener, 1838) * ''Strigatella coronadoensis'' F. Baker & Spicer, 1930 * ''Strigatella coronata'' (Lamarck, 1811) * ''Strigatella crassicostata'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874) * ''Strigatella decurtata'' (Reeve, 1844) * ''Strigatella fasciolaris'' (Deshayes, 1833) * ''Strigatella flavocingulata'' (Lamy, 1938) * ''Strigatella fulvescens'' (Broderip, 1836) * ''Strigatella holkosa'' (Broderi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
