Mitra litterata

Mitra (Strigatella) litterata

Mitra (Strigatella) litterata
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. litterata
Binomial name
*Mitra (Strigatella) litterata* Lamarck, 1811
Synonyms^[1]
Mitra litterata Lamarck, 1811 Columbella bizonalis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Mitra bizonalis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Mitra hebraea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Columbella hebraea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Mitra leopardina Küster, H.C., 1839 Mitra anaiis Lesson, R.P., 1842 Mitra maculosa Reeve, L.A., 1844 Mitra inversicolor Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923 Mitra major Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923

Mitra (Strigatella) litterata 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 11 mm and 35 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique and Transkei (RSA); in the Western Pacific Ocean along Australia, Papua New Guinea, Okinawa, the Philippines and Indonesia.

^ ^a ^b Mitra (Strigatella) litterata Lamarck, 1811. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416874 on 10 December 2010.

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