Scabricola fusca

Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca
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)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra fusca Swainson, 1823
  • Mitra zephyrina Sowerby, 1874

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


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