Dibaphimitra, CERNOHORSKY, 1970

Fedosov, Alexander, Puillandre, Nicolas, Herrmann, Manfred, Kantor, Yuri, Oliverio, Marco, Dgebuadze, Polina, Modica, Maria Vittoria & Bouchet, Philippe, 2018, The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183, pp. 253-337 : 325

GENUS DIBAPHIMITRA CERNOHORSKY, 1970

( FIG. 40G)

Type species: Mitra florida Gould, 1856 ; OD.

Diagnosis: As no material on Dibaphimitra florida was available for the present study, we do not provide our own diagnosis to this poorly studied genus, and refer to Cernohorsky (1970).

Species included: Dibaphimitra florida (Gould, 1856) 2.

Distribution: Caribbean, subtidal to upper bathyal depths.

Remarks: The radula of D. florida pictured by Cernohorsky (1970) is overall a typical mitrid radula, with a narrow rachidian and very wide nulticuspidate laterals. Although this morphology unequivocally places Dibaphimitra in Mitridae , it is inconclusive regarding the subfamilial placement of D. florida . More studies are needed to characterize the affinities of this enigmatic Caribbean lineage.

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