Mitra (Mitra) coffea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Mitra (gastropod) |
Species: | M. coffea |
Binomial name | |
Mitra (Mitra) coffea Schubert & Wagner, 1829 |
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Mitra (Mitra) coffea, common name : the coffee 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 32 mm and 60 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Tahiti and Hawaii