Mitra (Strigatella) fastigium | |
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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 |
Subgenus: | Strigatella |
Species: | M. fastigium |
Binomial name | |
Mitra (Strigatella) fastigium Reeve, 1845 |
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Mitra(Strigatella) fastigium 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 31 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along New Zealand