Swainsonia casta

Swainsonia casta
	Plate 48. Mitra casta. Chesnut-banded Mitre. Modern accepted name (2012) is Scabricola casta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Swainsonia
Species:	S. casta
Binomial name
	Swainsonia casta; (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
	Mitra matronalis Schumacher, H.C.F., 1817; Mitra laevis Adams, A., 1853; Scabricola (Swainsonia) casta (Gmelin, 1791); Scabricola casta (Gmelin, 1791); Voluta casta Gmelin, 1791 (original combination);

Swainsonia casta, common name the chaste mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 55 mm.

This marine species occurs off East Africa to Japan; off Pitcairn and Polynesia

^ Bouchet, P. (2017). Swainsonia casta. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934812 on 2017-06-21

Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.

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