Strigatella fulvescens

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]

Strigatella fulvescens
Scientific classification
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 ostergaardi Pilsbry, H.A., 1920
  • Mitra pararhodia Cate, J.M., 1963

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Western Pacific along Japan.

References
  1. "Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  2. Strigatella fulvescens (Broderip, 1836). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 December 2018.
  • 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
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