Biology:Strigatella fulvescens

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Strigatella fulvescens
Mitra fulvescens 001.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. fulvescens
Binomial name
Strigatella fulvescens
(Broderip, 1836)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens Broderip, 1836
  • Mitra fulvescens Broderip, 1836
  • Mitra ostergaardi Pilsbry, H.A., 1920
  • Mitra pararhodia Cate, J.M., 1963
  • Mitra telum G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
  • Nebularia fulvescens (Broderip, 1836)

Strigatella fulvescens, the tawny mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

The shell is acuminated, narrow, smooth, yellow-brown, much compressed at the sides. The spire is as long as the aperture. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is sinuously contracted, obliquely subtruncated and recurved over the siphonal canal. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific off Japan and the Tuamotu Islands .

References

  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 431
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6882082 entry