Swainsonia fissurata, common name : the reticulate mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Swainsonia |
Species: | S. fissurata
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Binomial name | |
Swainsonia fissurata (Lamarck, 1811)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe shell size varies between 21 mm and 65 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and the Mascarene Basin.
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2017). Swainsonia fissurata (Lamarck, 1811). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217225 on 21 June 2017
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 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): 126
- 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) fissurata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 December 2010.