Mitra (Mitra) incompta | |
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Mitra (Mitra) incompta | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Mitra |
Species: | M. incompta |
Binomial name | |
Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786) |
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Mitra (Mitra) incompta, common name : the tesselate 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 44 mm and 160 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region