Quasimitra sanguinolenta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
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| Shell of Quasimitra sanguinolenta (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Quasimitra |
| Species: | Q. sanguinolenta
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| Quasimitra sanguinolenta (Lamarck, 1811)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 27.8 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Madagascar and Mozambique.
References
edit- ^ Quasimitra sanguinolenta (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- Bozzetti (2009). Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 63 (2) : 7-8
External links
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- ) Lamarck (J.B.M.de). (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Mitre (Mitra.). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 17: 195-222.
- Cate J.M. (1966). A new name for Mitra sanguinolenta Lamarck, 1811. The Veliger. 9(2): 239-241, pl. 23
- Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337