Biology:Strigatella subruppelli

Short description: Species of mollusc

Strigatella subruppelli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Mitroidea
Family:	Mitridae
Subfamily:	Strigatellinae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. subruppelli
Binomial name
Strigatella subruppelli (Finlay, 1927)
Synonyms
Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia subruppeli Finlay, 1927 Mitra aurantia subruppeli Finlay, 1927 Mitra multisulcata G. B. Sowerby III, 1914 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra mulltisulcata Harris, 1897; Mitra subruppelli is a replacement name) Mitra subruppeli Finlay, 1927 (incorrect original spelling) Mitra subruppelli Finlay, 1927

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution and occurs from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to the Gulf of Oman and Western India.

Strigatella subruppelli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

References

• Finlay, H. J. (1927). New specific names for Austral Mollusca. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 488-533.

External links

• Gastropods.com: Strigatella subruppelli
• Sowerby III, G. B. (1914). Descriptions of new Mollusca from New Caledonia, Japan, Philippines, China, and West Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 8, 14: 475-480, pl. 19.
• 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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