Strigatella coffea

Strigatella coffea, (common name : the coffee mitre), is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Strigatella coffea
Strigatella coffea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. coffea
Binomial name
Strigatella coffea
(Schubert & Wagner, 1829)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra coffea Schubert & Wagner, 1829
  • Mitra fulva Swainson, 1829

Description

The shell size varies between 32 mm and 60 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Tahiti and Hawaii

gollark: Wojbie wanted me to print out the Library of Babel, but as I don't have a copy of that, I decided to just feed any working code to the printer instead.
gollark: You know the random program runner from ages ago?
gollark: Where did you get the idea to make such bad quotes from?
gollark: Fonctional Prugramming.
gollark: Yes, that was used in the older version.

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.