Mitromorpha dormitor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1] The length of the shell attains 7.3 mm. This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Curaçao and St Vincent.[2]
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| Drawing of a shell of Mitromorpha dormitor | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mitromorphidae |
| Genus: | Mitromorpha |
| Species: | M. dormitor
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| Mitromorpha dormitor (Sowerby I, 1844)
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References
edit- ^ a b Mitromorpha dormitor (Sowerby I, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
- ^ "Mitromorpha dormitor". Gastropods.com.
Further reading
edit- Sowerby Jr, G. B. "Descriptions of some new species of Columbella, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esp." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mitromorpha dormitor.
- "Lovellona dormitor". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.