Nebularia incompta

Nebularia incompta, common name : the tessellate mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Nebularia incompta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Nebularia
Species:
N. incompta
Binomial name
Nebularia incompta
(Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
  • Mitra incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
  • Mitra terebralis Lamarck, 1811
  • Voluta incompta Lightfoot, 1786

Description

The shell size varies between 44 mm and 160 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region

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References

  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 323
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice

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