Biology:Pseudonebularia cucumerina

Short description: Species of gastropod

Pseudonebularia cucumerina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Pseudonebularia
Species:	P. cucumerina
Binomial name
Pseudonebularia cucumerina (Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms
Mitra (Chrysame) cucumerina Lamarck, 1811 Mitra (Chrysame) cucumerina var. pallida Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1923 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra pallida A. Adams, 1853) Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina Lamarck, 1811 Mitra globosa Mörch, O.A.L., 1852 Mitra connectens Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923 Voluta ferrugata Dillwyn, L.W., 1817

Pseudonebularia cucumerina, common name : the kettle mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 9 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean off Fiji, the Solomons Islands, the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, Papua New Guinea.

References

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 400
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice

External links

• Lamarck (J.B.M.de). (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Mitre (Mitra.). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 17: 195-222
• Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L. J. (1923). Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie. 67(2): 83-159 [15 February 1923]; 67(3): 179-259, pl. 2
• Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337.

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