Imbricaria bicolor

Imbricaria bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Imbricaria
Species: I. bicolor
Binomial name
Imbricaria bicolor
(Swainson, 1824)
Synonyms[1]
  • Imbricaria filum Wood, 1828
  • Scabricola bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
  • Swainsonia bicolor (Swainson, 1824)

Imbricaria bicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Description

The species was first described by William Swainson under the name Mitra bicolor. The shell is smooth, polished, fusiform, white, with a brown central band. It seldom exceeds three-quarters of an inch in length.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off East Africa; in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar; Mauritius; Comoros; Seychelles

References

  1. 1 2 Imbricaria bicolor (Swainson, 1824).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/24/10.
  2. ↑ William Swainson (1829). "Zoological Illustrations Series II". Vol. I. Plate 19. Retrieved 24 Oct 2013.


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