Mitra dovpeledi
| Mitra dovpeledi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Mitra (gastropod) |
| Subgenus: | Nebularia |
| Species: | M. dovpeledi |
| Binomial name | |
| Mitra dovpeledi Turner, 1997[1] | |
Mitra dovpeledi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]
Description
Mitra Dovpeledi has the following physical characteristics: it is a sea snail. The shell has a well-developed siphonal canal. The siphon is an elongated and trunk like extensible tube formed from a fold in the mantle, and is used to suck water into the mantle cavity. There is a bipectinate osphradium located at base of siphon and branches off from a central axis. There is an olfactory organ located at the base of the siphon. There is a heart with a single auricle, a single pair a gill leaflets on one side of the central axis and 1 kidney. [3]
References
- ↑ Turner H. 1997. Argonauta X(1-6): 3-31. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 04/24/10.
- ↑ Mitra dovpeledi Turner, 1997. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/24/10.
- ↑ http://marine-species.web-definition.com/definitions/?scientificname=mitra_dovpeledi