Swainsonia casta, common name the chaste mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
| Swainsonia casta | |
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| Plate 48. Mitra casta. Chesnut-banded Mitre. Modern accepted name (2012) is Scabricola casta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Swainsonia |
| Species: | S. casta
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| Binomial name | |
| Swainsonia casta (Gmelin, 1791)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 55 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off East Africa to Japan; off Pitcairn and Polynesia
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, P. (2017). Swainsonia casta. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934812 on 2017-06-21
- Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.
External links
edit- "Scabricola (Swainsonia) casta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.