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Swainsonia newcombii

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Swainsonia newcombii
Shell of Swainsonia newcombii (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Imbricariinae
Genus: Swainsonia
Species:
S. newcombii
Binomial name
Swainsonia newcombii
(Pease, 1869)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra newcombii Pease, 1869 (original combination)
  • Scabricola (Swainsonia) newcombii (Pease, 1869)
  • Scabricola newcombii (Pease, 1869)

Swainsonia newcombii , common name Newcomb's mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Subspecies
  • Swainsonia newcombii irisae (Le Béon, 2014)
  • Swainsonia newcombii newcombii (Pease, 1869)

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 41 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Hawaii, Midway, New Caledonia and Tanzania.

References

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  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2017). Swainsonia newcombii (Pease, 1869). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934814 on 2017-06-22
  • 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.
  • Le Beon R., 2014, 2013. - Revision of the taxon Scabricola newcombii (Pease, 1869). Description of a new taxon: Scabricola newcombii irisae n. ssp. from New Caledonia and the Philippines. Xenophora Taxonomy 2: 30-33
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  • "Scabricola (Swainsonia) newcombii newcombii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Pease W. H. (1869). Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 5: 64-79
  • Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337