Swainsonia casta
Appearance
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Plate 48. Mitra casta. Chesnut-banded Mitre. Modern accepted name (2012) is Scabricola casta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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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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]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 55 mm.
![]() | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (June 2017) |
Distribution
[edit]This 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.