Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Muricoidea Genus Mitra Scientific name Mitra cuminata Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Mitridae Subgenus Strigatella Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Mitra, Mitra aurantia, Mitra cucumerina, Mitra incompta, Mitra chrysalis | ||
Mitra (Strigatella) acuminata, common name : the Acuminate Mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
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Description
The shell size varies between 17 mm and 35 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomons, Fiji and Australia.
References
Mitra acuminata Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA