Scabricola fissurata

Scabricola fissurata
Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata
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. fissurata
Binomial name
Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata
(Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms[1]

Mitra fissurata Lamarck, 1811

Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata, commo,n name : the reticulate 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 21 mm and 65 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and the Mascarene Basin

References

  1. ^ a b Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata (Lamarck, 1811).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217211 on 13 December 2010.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 126

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