| Mitra (Mitra) stictica | |
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| The shell of Mitra stictica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Mitra |
| Species: | M. stictica |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra (Mitra) stictica (Link, 1807) |
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Mitra (Mitra) stictica, common name : the pontifical mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters.[1]
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The shell size varies between 30 mm and 87 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along Fiji, New Zealand and the Solomons.