Mitra cucumerina
| Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina | |
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| Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina | |
| 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. cucumerina |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina Lamarck, 1811 | |
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Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina, common name : the kettle mitre, 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 9 mm and 35 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Fiji, the Solomons Islands, the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, Papua New Guinea Mauritius
References
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina; accessed : 10 December 2010
- ↑ Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina Lamarck, 1811. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 December 2010.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 400
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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