Strigatella luctuosa

Strigatella luctuosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]

Strigatella luctuosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. luctuosa
Binomial name
Strigatella luctuosa
(A. Adams, 1813)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Nebularia) luctuosa Adams, A., 1853
  • Mitra rutila Adams, A., 1853
  • Mitra nigricans Pease, W.H., 1865
  • Mitra lamberti Souverbie, S.M., 1875
  • Mitra astyridiformis Melvill, J.C., 1888
  • Mitra townsendi Melvill, J.C., 1904
  • Mitra albocoronata Schepman, M.M., 1911
  • Mitra alcida Cate, J.M., 1963
  • Mitra diamantina Cate, J.M., 1963

Description

The shell size varies between 16 mm and 35 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin, Mozambique, Transkei (RFA) and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

References
  1. "Mitra (Nebularia) luctuosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  2. Strigatella luctuosa (A. Adams, 1853). 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): 443
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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