Mitra eremitarum

Mitra (Mitra) eremitarum
Mitra (Mitra) eremitarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Mitra
Subgenus: Mitra
Species: M. eremitarum
Binomial name
Mitra (Mitra) eremitarum
Röding, 1798
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra adusta Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811
  • Mitra flavofusca Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811
  • Voluta ruffina Dillwyn, L.W., 1817
  • Mitra terebralis Swainson, W.A., 1840

Mitra (Mitra) eremitarum, common name : the Adusta Mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]

Description

The shell size varies between 38 mm and 86 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Pacific Ocean along Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.

References

  1. ↑ Gastropods.com : Mitra (Mitra) eremitarum; accessed : 10 December 2010
  2. ↑ Mitra (Mitra) eremitarum Röding, 1798.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 December 2010.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 324

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