Swainsonia newcombii
Appearance
Swainsonia newcombii | |
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Shell of Swainsonia newcombii (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Subfamily: | Imbricariinae |
Genus: | Swainsonia |
Species: | S. newcombii
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Binomial name | |
Swainsonia newcombii (Pease, 1869)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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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
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 41 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Hawaii, Midway, New Caledonia and Tanzania.
References
[edit]- ^ 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
External links
[edit]- "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