Cancilla praestantissima

Cancilla praestantissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Cancilla
Species: C. praestantissima
Binomial name
Cancilla praestantissima
(Röding, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cancilla (Domiporta) praestantissima (Röding, 1798)
  • Mitra praestantissima Röding, 1798
  • Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1798)
  • Mitra filosa Reeve, L.A., 1844
  • Mitra filosa gracilis Philippi, R.A., 1844

Cancilla praestantissima, common name : the most superior mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 61 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Polynesia.

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