Strigatella fulvescens explained

Strigatella fulvescens, the tawny mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

The shell is acuminated, narrow, smooth, yellow-brown, much compressed at the sides. The spire is as long as the aperture. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is sinuously contracted, obliquely subtruncated and recurved over the siphonal canal. ^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific off Japan and the Tuamotu Islands .

References

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 431
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice

External links

• Broderip W.J. (1836 ("1835")). Characters of new genera and species of the Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming
• 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

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