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Nebularia incompta

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Species of gastropod

Nebularia incompta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Nebularia
Species: N. incompta
Binomial name
Nebularia incompta
(Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
  • Mitra incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
  • Mitra terebralis Lamarck, 1811
  • Voluta incompta Lightfoot, 1786

Nebularia incompta (common name: tessellate mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 44 mm and 160 mm

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Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Indo-Pacific Region. Coral Sea - Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

References

  1. ^ Nebularia incompta (Lightfoot, 1786). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 323
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice

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Taxon identifiers
Mitra incompta
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