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Domiporta praestantissima
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Domiporta
Species:	D. praestantissima
Binomial name
Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1758)
Synonyms
Cancilla (Domiporta) praestantissima (Röding, 1798) Cancilla praestantissima (Röding, 1798) Mitra praestantissima Röding, 1798 Subcancilla praestantissima (Röding, 1798)

Domiporta praestantissima, the most superior mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the miter snail family.

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 61 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean off Polynesia
and off Japan.

References

1. ^ Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.

• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
• Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.

External links

• Gastropods.com : Domiporta praestantissima; accessed : 15 December 2010

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• Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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