''Pseudonebularia chrysalis'', common name the chrysalis 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.
Description
The shell size varies between 12 mm and 30 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off
Madagascar, the
Mascarene basin and
Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off the
Philippines,
Indonesia,
Okinawa,
Papua New Guinea and
Australia
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.
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): 402
* 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 (Nebularia) chrysalis''; accessed : 10 December 2010
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Mitridae
Gastropods described in 1844