Swainsonia fissurata

Swainsonia fissurata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Swainsonia
Species:	S. fissurata
Binomial name
	Swainsonia fissurata; (Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms
	Mitra fissurata Lamarck, 1811; Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata (Lamarck, 1811); Scabricola fissurata (Lamarck, 1811);

Swainsonia fissurata, common name : the reticulate 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 21 mm and 65 mm

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and the Mascarene Basin

^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2017). Swainsonia fissurata (Lamarck, 1811). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217225 on 2017-06-21

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