''Domiporta gloriola'', common name : the glorious mitre, is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2018). Mitridae Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http: ...
, the miters or miter snails.
[Bouchet, P. (2014). Domiporta gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719036 on 5 December 2014]
Description
The shell size varies between 40 mm and 67 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off
Indonesia,
Papua New Guinea and the
Ryukyus, Japan
References
* Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). ''The Mitridae of the world'' (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 97
External links
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Mitridae
Gastropods described in 1970