Nebularia pyramis
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| Nebularia pyramis | |
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| File:Mitra pyramis 001.jpg | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Nebularia |
| Species: | N. pyramis
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| Binomial name | |
| Nebularia pyramis (Wood, 1828)
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Nebularia pyramis (common name: Pyramis mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The shell size is 50 mm (2.0 in), but 70 mm. giants are known from the Philippines.
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Distribution
[edit | edit source]This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Nebularia pyramis (Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 424
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
External links
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