Scabricola olivaeformis
Scabricola olivaeformis, common name the olive-shaped mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miter shells or miter snails.[2]
Scabricola olivaeformis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Clade: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Scabricola |
Species: | S. olivaeformis |
Binomial name | |
Scabricola olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific off the Mascarene Basin and Réunion; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, Hawaii, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Japan and Okinawa
Description
The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 21 mm
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References
- "Imbricaria olivaeformis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- Scabricola olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- Arianna Fulvo and Roberto Nistri (2005). 350 coquillages du monde entier. Delachaux et Niestlé (Paris) : 256 p. ISBN 2-603-01374-2
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 138
- 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.
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