Protoelongata corallina, common name the coral mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1][2]
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| Shell of Vexillum corallinum (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Protoelongata |
| Species: | P. corallina
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| Binomial name | |
| Protoelongata corallina (Reeve, 1845)
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Description
edit(Original description) The shell is somewhat fusiform, polished and a little recurved at the base. The whorls are transversely obsoletely striated and longitudinally plicately ribbed. Its colour is amber or coral red, the ribs whitish. The columella is four-plaited.[3]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Protoelongata corallina (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=957081 on 2018-12-31
- ^ Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. (2017). Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(3): 541-626.
- ^ Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
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