Nebularia pellisserpentis explained
Nebularia pellisserpentis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Description
The white shell is narrow and subcylindrical. It is decussated with longitudinal striae and slight spiral sulci. The aperture is as long as the spire. The outer lip is finely crenulated within, sinuously produced in the middle, acutely toothed. The whorls are banded with brown above and compressed at the sides.[1]
(Described as Mitra nassoides) The thick shell is pale yellowish, oblong-subgibbose, subcancellated with rather unequal crenated longitudinal ribs and spiral undulated ridges nodose upon the ribs. The aperture equals the spire in length and is sinuously contracted. The outer lip is toothed, acuminated above the middle, angular below the middle, acuminated in front.
Distribution
The holotype of this marine species was found off the Philippines.
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
- Récluz, C. A. (1853). Description de coquilles nouvelles (Genres Turbo, Triton et Mitra). Journal de Conchyliologie. 4: 49-54.
- Adams, A. (1853). Description of fifty-two new species of the genus Mitra, from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1851) 19: 132-141
- Crosse H. (1861). Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 9(3): 285
- 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
Notes and References
- 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
