Subcancilla praestantissima

Subcancilla praestantissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Subcancilla
Species:	S. praestantissima
Binomial name
	Subcancilla praestantissima; (Röding, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
	Cancilla (Domiporta) praestantissima (Röding, 1798); Cancilla praestantissima (Röding, 1798); Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1798); Mitra praestantissima Röding, 1798; Mitra filosa Reeve, L.A., 1844; Mitra filosa gracilis Philippi, R.A., 1844;

Subcancilla praestantissima, common name : the most superior mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 61 mm

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean off Polynesia.

1 2 Bouchet, P. (2017). Subcancilla praestantissima. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934960 on 2017-06-22

Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.

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