Nebularia incompta (common name: tessellate mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
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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: | Nebularia |
| Species: | N. incompta
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| Nebularia incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
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Description
editThe shell size varies between 44 mm and 160 mm
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region. Coral Sea - Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
References
edit- ^ a b Nebularia incompta (Lightfoot, 1786). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
- Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 323
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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