| Mitra tuberosa | |
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| Mitra tuberosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Mitra |
| Species: | M. tuberosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra tuberosa Reeve, 1845 |
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Mitra tuberosa 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 14 mm and 30 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, the Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea.