Mitra variabilis | |
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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 |
Species: | M. variabilis |
Binomial name | |
Mitra variabilis Reeve, 1844 |
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Mitra variabilis, common name : the variable mitre, 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 20 mm and 46 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and in the Pacific Ocean along Australia.