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Mitra (Mitra) incompta 
Mitra (Mitra) incompta Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Mitridae Genus: Mitra Species: M. incompta Binomial name Mitra (Mitra) incompta
(Lightfoot, 1786)Synonyms[1] - Voluta vulpecula Gmelin, J.F., 1791
- Mitra terebralis Lamarck, 1811
- Mitra reevei Philippi, R.A., 1850
Mitra (Mitra) incompta, common name : the tesselate mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
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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
- ^ a b Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208276 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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