Strigatella aurantia

Strigatella aurantia, common name the orange mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Strigatella aurantia
Shell of Strigatella aurantia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. aurantia
Binomial name
Strigatella aurantia (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1][2]
Mitra minuta Röding, P.F., 1798 Mitra aurantia (Gmelin, 1791) Mitra limacina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Mitra peronii Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Mitra crassa Swainson, 1822 Mitra michelinii Guérin-Méneville, 1831 Mitra obliqua Lesson, R.P., 1842 Mitra limbifera Lamarck, 1844 Mitra caeligena Reeve, L.A., 1844 Mitra consolidata Sowerby, G.B. II & III, 1874 Voluta aurantia Gmelin, 1791

Description

The adult shell size varies between 21 mm and 58 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean at Mozambique, and in the Pacific Ocean at Papua New Guinea and the Solomons.

Strigatella aurantia aurantia forma nanus

References

1. Strigatella aurantia (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
2. Gastropods. com: Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia aurantia; access date: 11 December 2010

• MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 425
• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp