Ziba flammea

Ziba flammea
Ziba flammea
Ziba flammea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Ziba
Species: Z. flammea
Binomial name
Ziba flammea
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra flammigera Reeve, 1844
  • Mitra interlirata Reeve, 1844
  • Subcancilla flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Ziba flammea 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 10 mm and 34 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and Mauritius; Indo-West Pacific.

References

  1. ^ a b Ziba flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208208 on 13 December 2010.
  • Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 52

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