Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Muricoidea Genus Mitra Scientific name Mitra aurantia Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Mitridae Subgenus Nebularia Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Mitra, Mitra chrysalis, Mitra cucumerina, Mitra incompta, Mitra luctuosa | ||
Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia, common name the orange mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Contents
There are two subspecies:
Description
The adult shell size varies between 21 mm and 58 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean at Mozambique, and in the Pacific Ocean at Papua New Guinea and the Solomons.
References
Mitra aurantia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA