Mitra incompta
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| Mitra (Mitra) incompta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Mitra |
| Species: | M. incompta |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mitra (Mitra) incompta, common name : the tessellate 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 44 mm and 160 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region
References
- 1 2 Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2010.
- Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 323
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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