| Mitra nodulosa | |
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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: | Nebularia |
| Species: | M. nodulosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Mitra nodulosa, common name : the nodulose mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]
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The shell size varies between 15 mm and 50 mm
This species is distributed in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf Of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina , the Bermudas to Brazil.