Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis | |
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Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis | |
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. pyramis |
Binomial name | |
Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis (Wood, 1828) |
Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis, common name : the Pyramis mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Contents |
The shell size is 50 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.