Strigatella fulvescens
| Strigatella fulvescens | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Strigatella |
| Species: | S. fulvescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Strigatella fulvescens (Broderip, 1836)
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Strigatella fulvescens, the tawny 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 20 mm and 50 mm.
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Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Western Pacific along Japan.
References
- ^ "Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ Strigatella fulvescens (Broderip, 1836). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 431
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice