Nebularia pyramis
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Nebularia |
Species: | N. pyramis
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Binomial name | |
Nebularia pyramis (Wood, 1828)
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Nebularia pyramis (common name: Pyramis mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell size is 50 mm (2.0 in),
but 70 mm. giants are known from the Philippines.
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Distribution
[edit]This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.
References
[edit]- ^ Nebularia pyramis (Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 424
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice