Strigatella assimilis

Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Mitra (gastropod)
Subgenus:	Strigatella
Species:	M. assimilis
Binomial name
	Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis; Pease, 1868
Synonyms
	Mitra unifascialis Kiener, L.C., 1838; Mitra nivosa Küster, H.C., 1839; Mitra (Strigatella) auriculoides Reeve, L.A., 1845; Mitra turturina Souverbie, S.M., 1875;

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

The species name Mitra assimilis Garrett, 1873 has been declared a synonym of Vexillum (Pusia) crocatum (Lamarck, 1811) ^[2]

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 25 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific

^ Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis Pease, 1868. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 January 2011.
^ Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 18

Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 486

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