Mitra assimilis

Mitra assimilis
Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Mitra (gastropod)
Subgenus: Strigatella
Species: M. assimilis
Binomial name
Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis
Pease, 1868
Synonyms
  • Mitra unifascialis Kiener, L.C., 1838
  • Mitra nivosa Küster, H.C., 1839
  • Mitra (Strigatella) auriculoides Reeve, L.A., 1845
  • Mitra turturina Souverbie, S.M., 1875

Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

The species name Mitra assimilis Garrett, 1873 has been declared a synonym of Vexillum (Pusia) crocatum (Lamarck, 1811) [2]

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Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 25 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific

References

  1. ^ Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis Pease, 1868.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416875 on 28 January 2011.
  2. ^ Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 18
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 486

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