Pseudonebularia cucumerina
Appearance
Pseudonebularia cucumerina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Pseudonebularia |
Species: | P. cucumerina
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Binomial name | |
Pseudonebularia cucumerina (Lamarck, 1811)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Pseudonebularia cucumerina, common name : the kettle mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]
Description
The shell size varies between 9 mm and 35 mm.
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Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Fiji, the Solomons Islands, the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, Papua New Guinea.
References
- ^ "Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ Pseudonebularia cucumerina (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 400
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice