Mitra aurantia

Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia
Two views of 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]
Mitra minuta Röding, P.F., 1798 Mitra aurantiaca Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Mitra limacina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Mitra peronii Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Mitra crassa Swainson, 1822 Mitra michelinii Guérin-Méneville, 1831 Mitra obliqua Lesson, R.P., 1842 Mitra limbifera Lamarck, 1844 Mitra caeligena Reeve, L.A., 1844 Mitra consolidata Sowerby, G.B. II & III, 1874 Mitra carifa Bartsch, P., 1915

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. ^ ^{a b} Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia (Gmelin, 1791).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208260 on 11 December 2010.
2. ^ 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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