Quasimitra nubila

Mitra nubila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Mitra (gastropod)
Species:	M. nubila
Binomial name
	Mitra nubila; (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
	Mitra (Mitra) nubila (Gmelin, 1791); Mitra brettinghami Smith, E.A., 1906; Mitra erronea Dohrn, H., 1861; Mitra nebulosa Reeve, L.A., 1844; Mitra nivosa Swainson, W.A., 1822; Mitra propinqua Adams, A., 1853; Mitra sanguinolenta Küster, H.C., 1839; Mitra versicolor Martyn, 1784 (non-binominal);

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

Description

The size of the shell varies between 34 mm and 81 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Indo-West Pacific

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp

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