Mitra aurantia

Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia
A shell of Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Mitra
Subgenus: Nebularia
Species: M. aurantia
Binomial name
Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Mitra minuta Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Mitra aurantiaca Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811
  • 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
  • Mitra carifa Bartsch, P., 1915

Mitra (Nebularia) 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]

There are two subspecies:

  • Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia crassicostata Sowerby, 1874
  • Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia subruppeli Finlay, 1927

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.

Museum specimens, Naturalis

References

  1. 1 2 Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2010.
  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
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