Pseudonebularia 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
	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.

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.

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