Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family

Family (biology)

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 of sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, widely distributed marine

Marine (ocean)

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 gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda

Neogastropoda

Neogastropoda is an unranked taxonomic clade of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. For many years prior to 2005 Neogastropoda was an order.- Description :...

.

Both the Latin

Latin

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 name and the common name are taken from the item of ecclesiastical headgear, the mitre

Mitre

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 or miter, used in reference to the shape of the shells.

The dentition of radula

Radula

The radula is an anatomical structure that is used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared rather inaccurately to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus...

 in the Mitridae is rachiglossate, with well-developed central and lateral teeth, both comb-like.

Subfamilies

• Cylindromitrinae Cossmann, 1899
• Imbricariinae  Cossmann, 1899
• Mitrinae Swainson, 1829

Genera

Genera in the family Mitridae include:

• Cancilla
  Cancilla
  Cancilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Cancilla include:* Cancilla aegra * Cancilla apprimapex Poppe, Tagaro & Salisbury, 2009...
  
  Swainson, 1840
• Charitodoron
  Charitodoron
  Charitodoron is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Charitodoron include:* Charitodoron agulhasensis * Charitodoron alcyone Lussi, 2009...
  
  Tomlin, 1932
• Chrysame
  Chrysame
  Chrysame is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae....
  
  H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Dibaphimitra
  Dibaphimitra
  Dibaphimitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Dibaphimitra include:* Dibaphimitra florida...
  
  Cernohorsky, 1970
• Domiporta
  Domiporta
  Domiporta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Domiporta include:* Domiporta dianneae Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003* Domiporta polycincta Turner , 2007...
  
  Cernohorsky, 1970
• Eumitra Tate, 1889
• Imbricaria
  Imbricaria
  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 bicolor...
  
  Schumacher, 1817
• Mitra Röding
  Peter Friedrich Röding
  Peter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.Many of Röding's descriptions are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister...
  
  , 1798
• Neocancilla
  Neocancilla
  Neocancilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Neocancilla include:* Neocancilla antoniae H...
  
  Cernohorsky, 1970
• Pleioptygma
  Pleioptygma
  Pleioptygma is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Muricoidea.Pleioptygma is the type genus of the family Pleioptygmatidae and it is the only genus in the family Pleioptygmatidae.- Etymology :...
  
  Conrad, 1863
• Proximitra Finlay, 1926
• Pterygia Röding, 1798
• Scabricola
  Scabricola
  Scabricola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Scabricola include:* Scabricola alabaster * Scabricola barrywilsoni Scabricola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within...
  
  Swainson, 1840
• Strigatella Swainson, 1840
• Subcancilla
  Subcancilla
  Subcancilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Subcancilla include:* Subcancilla annulata * Subcancilla baisei Poppe, Tagaro & Salisbury, 2009...
  
  Olsson & Harbison, 1953
• Swainsonia
  Swainsonia
  Swainsonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Swainsonia include:* Swainsonia fissurata Lamarck* Swainsonia zephyra Recluz...
  
  H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Vulpecula
  Vulpecula
  Vulpecula is a faint constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "little fox", although it is commonly known simply as the fox. It was identified in the seventeenth century, and is located in the middle of the Summer Triangle .-Stars:There are no stars brighter than 4th magnitude in...
  
  Blainville, 1824
• Ziba
  Ziba (gastropod)
  Ziba is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae.-Species:Species within the genus Ziba include:* Ziba abyssicola * Ziba aglais Li, Zhang & Li, 2005* Ziba annulata...
  
  H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853