Mitra incompta

Mitra (Mitra) incompta
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)
Synonyms[1]
  • Voluta vulpecula Gmelin, J.F., 1791
  • Mitra terebralis Lamarck, 1811
  • Mitra reevei Philippi, R.A., 1850

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]

Contents

Description

The shell size varies between 44 mm and 160 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region

References

  1. ^ a b Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208276 on 11 December 2010.

External links