Mitra aurantia
Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia | |
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A shell of Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia | |
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. aurantia |
Binomial name | |
Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia, common name the orange mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
There are two subspecies:
- Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia crassicostata Sowerby, 1874
- Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia subruppeli Finlay, 1927
Description
The adult shell size varies between 21 mm and 58 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean at Mozambique, and in the Pacific Ocean at Papua New Guinea and the Solomons.
References
- 1 2 Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2010.
- ↑ Gastropods. com: Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia aurantia; access date: 11 December 2010
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 425
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
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