| Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Scabricola |
| Subgenus: | Swainsonia |
| Species: | S. fusca |
| Binomial name | |
| Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca (Swainson, 1824) |
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Scabricola (Swainsonia) fusca, common name : the dusky 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 14 mm and 30 mm.
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin and in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola.