''Nebularia fastigium'' 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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
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.
Description
The shell size varies between 20 mm and 31 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along
Tanzania and the
Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along
New Zealand
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): 494
* Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). ''Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice''
* Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). ''A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands.'' Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. . 448 pp
External links
Gastropods.com : ''Mitra (Strigatella) fastigium''; accessed : 14 December 2010
fastigium
Gastropods described in 1845
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