Mitra fulvescens
| Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens | |
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| Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens | |
| 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. fulvescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens Broderip, 1836 | |
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Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens, common name : the tawny 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 20 mm and 50 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Western Pacific along Japan.
References
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens; accessed : 10 December 2010
- ↑ Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens Broderip, 1836. 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): 431
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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