Strigatella fulvescens

Strigatella fulvescens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. fulvescens
Binomial name
	Strigatella fulvescens; (Broderip, 1836)
Synonyms
	Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens Broderip, 1836; Mitra fulvescens Broderip, 1836; Mitra ostergaardi Pilsbry, H.A., 1920; Mitra pararhodia Cate, J.M., 1963; Mitra telum G. B. Sowerby II, 1874; Nebularia fulvescens (Broderip, 1836);

Strigatella fulvescens, the tawny mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[2]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

The shell is acuminated, narrow, smooth, yellow-brown, much compressed at the sides. The spire is as long as the aperture. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is sinuously contracted, obliquely subtruncated and recurved over the siphonal canal. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific off Japan and the Tuamotu Islands .

References

^ "Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
^ Strigatella fulvescens (Broderip, 1836). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 December 2018.
^ Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published

Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 431
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice

External links

[1] "Mitra (Nebularia) fulvescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.

[WoRMS-2] Strigatella fulvescens (Broderip, 1836). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 December 2018.

[3] Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published

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