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Strigatella tristis

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Strigatella tristis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. tristis
Binomial name
Strigatella tristis
(Broderip, 1836)
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Strigatella) tristis Broderip, 1836
  • Mitra albofasciata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 ·
  • Mitra tristis Broderip, 1836

Strigatella tristis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the mitres or mitre snails.[1]

Description

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(Described as Mitra albofasciata) This rough South African shell is placed in this section because of its cylindrical form. It is darkly coloured and longitudinally wrinkled, with a white band at the suture of the whorls where they are a little shouldered. [2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Galapagos Islands

References

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