| Cancilla praestantissima | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Cancilla |
| Species: | C. praestantissima |
| Binomial name | |
| Cancilla praestantissima (Röding, 1758) |
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Cancilla 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]
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The shell size varies between 20 mm and 61 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Polynesia.