Mitra avenacea
| Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea | |
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| Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Mitra |
| Subgenus: | Nebularia |
| Species: | M. avenacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra avenacea Reeve, 1845 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]
Description
The shell size varies between 12 mm and 32 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea
'Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea', abapertural view
References
- ↑ OBIS : Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea
- ↑ Mitra avenacea Reeve, 1845. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/24/10.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 411
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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