Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Mitridae Scientific name Mitra avenacea | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Muricoidea Genus Mitra Rank Species | |
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Similar Mitra chrysalis, Mitra cucumerina, Mitra luctuosa | ||
Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea 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 12 mm and 32 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea
References
Mitra avenacea Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA