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Imbricaria annulata

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Imbricaria annulata
Shell of Imbricaria annulata (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Imbricaria
Species:
I. annulata
Binomial name
Imbricaria annulata
(Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Cancilla) annulata Reeve, 1844
  • Mitra acutilirata Sowerby III, 1874
  • Mitra annulata Reeve, 1844 (original combination)
  • Mitra marionae Melvill, J.C., 1888
  • Mitra nitens Kiener, L.C., 1838
  • Subcancilla annulata (Reeve, 1844)
  • Ziba annulata (Reeve, 1844)

Imbricaria annulata, common name the ringed mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 35 mm.

The shell is subovate, pale rose, encircled with angular ridges, painted on the angles with interrupted red-brown lines. It is longitudinally striated between the ridges.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar down to Mozambique; off China and Japan; of the Marquesas

References

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  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.
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