Domiporta circula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1] Their shell size ranges from 15 mm to 58 mm.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Domiporta |
| Species: | D. circula
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| Domiporta circula (Kiener, 1838)
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This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean along Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Tuamotus and Fiji
References
edit- ^ a b Domiporta circula (Kiener, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 112
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