Quasimitra nubila

Quasimitra 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]

Quasimitra nubila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Quasimitra
Species:
Q. nubila
Binomial name
Quasimitra nubila
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Mitra) nubila (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Mitra erronea Dohrn, H., 1861
  • Mitra nubila (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Mitra versicolor Martyn, 1784 (non-binominal)
  • Voluta nubila Gmelin, 1791

Description

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

Distribution

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

References
  1. Quasimitra nubila (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
  • 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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