Mitridae

Mitridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Superorder:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Sorbeoconcha
Suborder:	Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae Swainson, 1931
Genera
See text.

Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a family of marine gastropod molluscs in the order Sorbeoconcha found in most warm and temperate seas. They resemble shells of the volutidae in having columellar plaits, but mitres are generally smaller, narrower and often more solid. All mitres studied have a poison gland, and no operculum.

Genera

• Austromitra Finlay, 1927
• Mitra Roding, 1798
• Subcancilla Olsson and Harbison, 1953

References

• "Mitridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1