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Imbricaria bacillum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Imbricaria
Species:	I. bacillum
Binomial name
Imbricaria bacillum (Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms
Cancilla philippinarum (A. Adams, 1853) Mitra baccillum Lamarck, 1811 (incorrect original spelling) Mitra bacillum Lamarck, 1811 (original combination) Mitra fischeri Souverbie, 1860 Mitra philippinarum A. Adams, 1853 Mitra strigillata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Ziba bacillum (Lamarck, 1811)

Imbricaria bacillum, common name the Philippine 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 14 and 32.4 mm (0.55 and 1.28 in).

The shell is spirally grooved and longitudinally striped with greenish or bluish grey.

Distribution

This marine species off the Andamans, the Philippines and off Samoa.

References

1. Imbricaria bacillum (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
2. 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

External links

• Adams A. (1853
• Lamarck
• Souverbie (S.M.). (1860). Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien (5è article). Journal de Conchyliologie. 8(3): 311-326, pl. 11
• 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

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