# Dibaphimitra

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Dibaphimitra
| image = Dibaphimitra florida (Gould, 1856) Collection Natural History Museum Rotterdam NMR993000091576.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Dibaphimitra florida](/source/Dibaphimitra_florida)''
| authority =[Cernohorsky](/source/Walter_Oliver_Cernohorsky), 1970 
| synonyms_ref = 
| synonyms= ''Mitra (Dibaphimitra)'' <small>Cernohorsky, 1970</small>
| type_species=
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''See text''
| display_parents = 3
}}

'''''Dibaphimitra''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Mitridae](/source/Mitridae).<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|415292|''Dibaphimitra'' ||9 September 2025}}</ref> First described in 1970 by [Walter Oliver Cernohorsky](/source/Walter_Oliver_Cernohorsky), the genus has a single extant member, ''[Dibaphimitra florida](/source/Dibaphimitra_florida)'', found in the [Caribbean Sea](/source/Caribbean_Sea). One fossil taxon, is also included in ''Dibaphimitra'', ''[D. dennanti](/source/Dibaphimitra_dennanti)''.

==Description==

''Dibaphimitra'' measure between {{cvt|25-80|mm}} in size, and have an inflated final whorl. Members of the genus have a teleoconch with 4–6 convex whorls, and a protoconch of 1.5–3.5 smooth whorls. The aperture is longer than its spire. The animal is colored milky white with brown irregular blotches.<ref name="OriginalDescription"/>

==Taxonomy==

The taxon was first described as the subgenus ''Mitra (Dibaphimitra)'' in 1970 by New Zealand malacologist [Walter Oliver Cernohorsky](/source/Walter_Oliver_Cernohorsky), who assigned ''[Dibaphimitra florida](/source/Dibaphimitra_florida)'' (then ''Mitra florida'') as the type species.<ref name="OriginalDescription">{{cite Q|Q115112302|pp=37}}</ref> Since publication, ''Dibaphimitra'' has been elevated to genus level.

There are two members of the genus, the extant ''[Dibaphimitra florida](/source/Dibaphimitra_florida)'', which was added to the taxon by Cernohorsky in 1970,<ref name="OriginalDescription"/> and ''[Dibaphimitra dennanti](/source/Dibaphimitra_dennanti)'' (formerly known as ''Mitra dennanti'' and ''Volutomitra dennanti''), a fossil species known from the Muddy Creek Formation of the [Otway Basin](/source/Otway_Basin) in Australia.<ref name="Darragh">{{cite journal|title=A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca |first1=Thomas A. |last1=Darragh |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |date=2024 |volume=83 |page=37-206}}</ref> ''Dibaphimitra janetae'', described by Edward James Petuch in 1987,<ref>{{cite book|last=Petuch |first=E. J. |year=1987 |title=New Caribbean molluscan faunas. |location=Charlottesville, Virginia |publisher=The Coastal Education and Research Foundation |isbn=0938415018 |pp=70}}</ref> was synonymised with ''D. florida'' in 2004.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Alain |last1=Robin |first2=Jean-Claude |last2=Martin |year=2004 |title=Mitridae Costellariidae |location=Paris |publisher=Xenophora |isbn=978-3925919664 |pp=17}}</ref>

As of 2018, the genus has not been ascribed to a subfamily within [Mitridae](/source/Mitridae).<ref>{{cite Q|Q104454683}}</ref>

==Distribution==

While living members of genus are found in the [Caribbean Sea](/source/Caribbean_Sea), fossil shells of the genus have been found since the [Miocene](/source/Miocene) in a much wider area,<ref name="OriginalDescription"/> including Australia.<ref name="Darragh"/>

==Species==
Species within the genus ''Dibaphimitra'' include:
* ''[Dibaphimitra dennanti](/source/Dibaphimitra_dennanti)'' {{small|(Tate, 1889)}} †<ref>{{WRMS species|1770044|''Dibaphimitra dennanti'' (Tate, 1889) †||9 September 2025}}</ref>
* ''[Dibaphimitra florida](/source/Dibaphimitra_florida)'' {{small|(Gould, 1856)}}<ref>{{WRMS species|420091|''Dibaphimitra florida'' (Gould, 1856)||24 April 2010}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Mitridae
Category:Gastropod genera
Category:Marine molluscs of North America
Category:Molluscs of Central America
Category:Taxa described in 1970
Category:Taxa named by Walter Oliver Cernohorsky

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