Domiporta gloriola
| Domiporta gloriola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Domiporta |
| Species: | D. gloriola
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| Binomial name | |
| Domiporta gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970)
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| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Domiporta gloriola, the glorious mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1] D. gloriola is primarily found in intertidal or sandy areas up to a depth of 40 m (130 ft) primarily in the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean, including the Philippines and Indonesia. Additional sightings have been reported in the Red Sea, and in the western Indian Ocean at Zanzibar.
Description
D. gloriola has a medium sized shell, is elongated with a tall spire and convex whorls. It is sculptured with spiral cords and axially striate interspaces. The aperture of the species is equal to the spire length, and the species has a thickened and crenulate outer lip. D. gloriola has a columella with 5 folds, and is off-white in colour. In addition to this, the species has two weakly reddish-brown bands along its body whorl, as well as interrupted brown spiral lines,[3] and spiral cords that are speckled with numerous spots that are white or blackish-brown in colour.[2] The species' shell height ranges between 40–67 mm (1.6–2.6 in),[4] a width between 11.9–15 mm (0.47–0.59 in), and has an aperture height of between 23.2–25.8 mm (0.91–1.02 in).[2]
The species is visually similar to D. granatina, matching size, sculpture and their colour patterns. The shells of D. gloriola can be identified due to being roundly subangulate, more slender, fusiform-elongate and less inflated in shape, more numerous whorla (9-11 in D. gloriola, compared to 7-8 in D. granatina) and a shorter aperture in relation to the total shell size.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first described as Mitra gracilis in 1844 by Lovell Augustus Reeve.[5] In 1970, Walter Oliver Cernohorsky gave the species the provisional name Cancilla (Domiporta) gloriola, after finding that the name given by Reeve was invalid name due to a different species being described using this name in 1841 by Isaac Lea.[6] By 1977, Cernohorsky had begun to describe Domiporta as a genus,[7] and in 1989, Domiporta was described as a genus by Vaught, Abbott and Boss,[8] which in turn led the species' preferred name to be Domiporta gloriola.[1] Three syntypes of the species are held in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London.[2]
Distribution and habitat
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean in areas such as the Philippines,[6][9] Australia,[10] New Guinea,[11] Okinawa and the Ōsumi Islands in the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan,[4][2] Indonesia,[2] the Red Sea,[12] and Zanzibar in the western Indian Ocean.[13] The type locality of the species is Ticao Island in the Philippines, at a depth of 11 m (36 ft) from the shore.[2]
The species tends to live in coral sand, from the intertidal zone up to a depth of 40 m (130 ft).[2][14]
Gallery
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Type specimen from the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie
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Type specimen from the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie
References
- ^ a b c Domiporta gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 September 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cernohorsky, W. O. (1991). "The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae". Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 2 (2): 97. ISSN 0162-8321. Wikidata Q136346175.
- ^ Springsteen, F. J.; Leobrera, F. M. (1986). Shells of the Philippines. Carfel Seashell Museum. p. 199. ISBN 978-9719102908.
- ^ a b "Domiporta gloriola". Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods. Conchology, Inc. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ Reeve, L.A. (1844). "Monograph of the genus Mitra". Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2. London: L. Reeve & Co. p. Plate V, Species 31.
- ^ a b Cernohorsky, W. O. (1970). "Systematics of the families Mitridae and Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 8: 49. ISSN 0067-0456. OCLC 696235. Wikidata Q115112302.
- ^ Cernohorsky, W. O. (1977). "The Taxonomy of Some Indo-Pacific Mollusca: Part 5. With descriptions of new taxa and remarks on Nassarius albus (Say)". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 14: 121–132. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906254. Wikidata Q58677058.
- ^ Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. Melbourne: American Malacologists. ISBN 9789719102908.
- ^ Yamadashima, Takafumi; Sakashita, Yasunori (2011). "A shell's subject record of in the Fukushige Collection 2009 vol.2 in Kagoshima Prefectural Museum". Bulletin of the Kagoshima Prefectural Museum (in Japanese). 30: 85–102. Wikidata Q136373675.
- ^ Wells, F. E. (1993). "Molluscs of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island, Part 4". Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement No. 44: 25-45.
- ^ Li Bao-quan; Li Xin-zheng (2004). "Preliminary Study on the Fauna of Mitridae of Chinese Seas". Chinese Journal of Zoology (in Chinese) (04). doi:10.13859/J.CJZ.2004.04.001. ISSN 0250-3263. Wikidata Q99931052.
- ^ Wils, E; Verbinnen, G. (2002). "Red Sea Mollusca, Part 11: Mitridae, Part 12: Costellariidae". Gloria Maris. 41 (1–2): 1–27.
- ^ "Domiporta gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ "ホソアラフデ Glorious Miter". Bigai (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 September 2025.