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Mitra chrysalis
Mitra chrysalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Mitridae
Genus:
Mitra
Subgenus:
Nebularia
Species:
M. chrysalis
Binomial name
Mitra chrysalis
Reeve, 1844
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra leucozonia Küster, H.C., 1839
  • Mitra caledonica Récluz, C., 1853
  • Mitra buryi Melvill, J.C. & E. R. Sykes, 1899
  • Strigatella buryi Melville & Sykes

Mitra chrysalis, common name the Chrysalis 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 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

References

  1. ^ a b Mitra (Nebularia) chrysalis Reeve, 1844. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 December 2010.
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 402
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp

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