Imbricaria Explained

Imbricaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Species

Species within the genus Imbricaria include:

• Imbricaria amoena (A. Adams, 1853)
• Imbricaria annulata (Reeve, 1844)
• Imbricaria armonica (T. Cossignani & V. Cossignani, 2005)
• Imbricaria astyagis (Dohrn, 1860)
• Imbricaria bacillum (Lamarck, 1811)
• Imbricaria baisei (Poppe, Tagaro & R. Salisbury, 2009)
• Imbricaria bantamensis (Oostingh, 1939)
• Imbricaria bellulavaria (Dekkers, Herrmann, Poppe & Tagaro, 2014)
• Imbricaria cernohorskyi (Rehder & B. R. Wilson, 1975)
• Imbricaria cloveri (Cernohorsky, 1971)
• Imbricaria conularis Lamarck, 1811)
• Imbricaria flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Imbricaria flammigera (Reeve, 1844)
• Imbricaria fulgetrum (Reeve, 1844)
• Imbricaria hidalgoi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1913)
• Imbricaria hrdlickai (R. Salisbury, 1994)
• Imbricaria insculpta (A. Adams, 1853)
• Imbricaria interlirata (Reeve, 1844)
• Imbricaria intersculpta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
• Imbricaria kermadecensis (Cernohorsky, 1978)
• Imbricaria maui (Kay, 1979)
• Imbricaria nadayaoi (Bozzetti, 1997)
• Imbricaria philpoppei (Poppe, Tagaro & R. Salisbury, 2009)
• Imbricaria polycincta (H. Turner, 2007)
• Imbricaria pretiosa (Reeve, 1844)
• Imbricaria pugnaxa (Poppe, Tagaro & R. Salisbury, 2009)
• Imbricaria ruberorbis (Dekkers, Herrmann, Poppe & Tagaro, 2014)
• Imbricaria rufilirata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
• Imbricaria rufogyrata (Poppe, Tagaro & R. Salisbury, 2009)
• Imbricaria salisburyi (Drivas & Jay, 1990)
• Imbricaria tahitiensis (Herrmann & R. Salisbury, 2012)
• Imbricaria verrucosa (Reeve, 1845)
• Imbricaria yagurai (Kira, 1959)
• Imbricaria zetema (Dekkers, Herrmann, Poppe & Tagaro, 2014)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Imbricaria bicolor: synonym of Scabricola bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
• Imbricaria carbonacea (Hinds, 1844): synonym of Imbricariopsis carbonacea (Hinds, 1844)
• Imbricaria conica Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Imbricaria conularis (Lamarck, 1811)
• Imbricaria conovula: synonym of Imbricariopsis conovula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Imbricaria conus: synonym of Pterygia conus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Imbricaria filum (Wood, 1828): synonym of Scabricola bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
• Imbricaria olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Swainsonia olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821)
• Imbricaria porphyria Verco, 1896: synonym of Peculator porphyria (Verco, 1896)
• Imbricaria punctata (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Imbricariopsis punctata (Swainson, 1821)
• Imbricaria vanikorensis: synonym of Imbricariopsis vanikorensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Distribution

Species from this genus can be found in the Indian Ocean along Chagos and Mauritius.

References

• Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis of its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43-50

External links

• Eurasia shells info
• Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.
• Swainson, W. (1820-1823). Zoological Illustrations, or, original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists. London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joe; Strand: W. Wood. (Vol. 1-3): pl. 1-18 [1820] pl. 19-83 [1821] pl. 84-134 [1822] pl. 135-182
• 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