Imbricaria annulata explained

Imbricaria annulata, common name the ringed mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 35 mm.

The shell is subovate, pale rose, encircled with angular ridges, painted on the angles with interrupted red-brown lines. It is longitudinally striated between the ridges.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar down to Mozambique; off China and Japan; of the Marquesas

References

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.

External links

• Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
• Kiener L.C. (1834-1841). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles. Vol. 3. Famille des Columellaires. Genres Mitre (Mitra), Lamarck, pp. 1-120, pl. 1-34
• Melvill, J. C. (1888). Descriptions of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 281-288
• 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): 253-337
• Gastropods.com: Subcancilla annulata

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15936976 Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published