title: Mitropsis
text: # Mitropsis
  
  Mitropsis is a monotypic genus of sea snails in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Mitropsis paumotensis (Tryon, 1883)
  
  ### Synonym
  
  * Mitropsis fusiformis Pease, 1868: synonym of Mitropsis paumotensis (Tryon, 1883) (invalid: treated as a secondary homonym of Columbella fusiformis by Tryon, who established the replacement name Columbella paumotensis)
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species was found off the Tuamotu archipelago.
  
  