Nebularia incompta
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Nebularia |
Species: | N. incompta
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Binomial name | |
Nebularia incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
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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]
Description
[edit]The shell size varies between 44 mm and 160 mm
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Distribution
[edit]This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region
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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