Scabricola fusca
| Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Scabricola |
| Subgenus: | Swainsonia |
| Species: | S. fusca |
| Binomial name | |
| Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca (Swainson, 1824) | |
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Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca, common name : the dusky mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description
The shell is nearly spindle-shaped, entirely brown and marked by bands of punctured dots. Size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin and in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola.
References
- 1 2 Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca (Swainson, 1824). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2010.
- Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 131
- Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
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