''Nebularia gourgueti '' 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.
Description
The length of the shell attains 27.7 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Tahiti, French Polynesia.
References
*(of Mitra gourgueti Poppe, Salisbury & Tagaro, 2015) Poppe G.T., Salisbury R. & Tagaro S.P. (2015). Two new Mitridae from the Central Pacific. Visaya. 4(4): 77-84 page(s): 78, pl. 3.
External links
Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337Worms Link
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