Mitra rubiginosa

Mitra (Nebularia) rubiginosa
Mitra (Nebularia) rubiginosa
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. rubiginosa
Binomial name
Mitra (Nebularia) rubiginosa Reeve, 1844

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

Description

The shell size varies between 24 mm and 50 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Eastern Indian Ocean; in the Pacific Ocean along Papua New Guinea; Fiji, the Philippines

References

1. ^ Mitra (Nebularia) rubigionosa Reeve, 1844.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416850 on 11 December 2010.

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 423

External links

• "Gastropods. com: Mitra (Nebularia) rubiginosa". http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_7338.shtml. Retrieved 11 December 2010.