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, common name : the reticulate mitre, 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 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 2 Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species 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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