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Roseomitra millepunctata
Shell of Roseomitra millepunctata (neotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Roseomitra
Species:	R. millepunctata
Binomial name
Roseomitra millepunctata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)
Synonyms
Mitra millepunctata G. B. Sowerby III, 1889 Mitra terryni Poppe, 2008

Roseomitra millepunctata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

Members of the order Neogastropoda are mostly gonochoric and broadcast spawners. Embryos develop into planktonic trochophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults

The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 7 mm.

(Original description) The elongately-fusiform shell has a long, sharp spire nearly as long as the dorsal part of body whorl. The protoconch is wanting. The re are 8 remaining whorls, slightly convex, separated by a well-marked, slightly crenulated suture. The sculpture consists of spiral grooves, which are distinctly punctured, about 1 5 grooves on the body whorl and 4 intermediate rows of punctures in the interstices 3 to 6. Moreover there are very fine growth-striae, somewhat coarser, nearly groove-like at the punctures are visible under the lens. The whole shell is ivory-white, with a row of subsquare yellowish-brown spots below the suture, 8 in number on the body whorl. The majority of the punctured grooves, especially on the body whorl, is of the same colour. The aperture is much broken, probably narrow, the intact upper part is not very sharp and smooth. The columella is slightly curved, with 5 oblique plaits, its interior is white.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Philippines and the Andaman Islands.

References

1. ^ Roseomitra millepunctata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
2. Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. Poppe G.T. (2008) New Fissurellidae, Epitoniidae, Aclididae, Mitridae and Costellariidae from the Philippines. Visaya 2(3): 37-63.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 14 December 2018.

• Poppe G.T. (2008) New Fissurellidae, Epitoniidae, Aclididae, Mitridae and Costellariidae from the Philippines. Visaya 2(3): 37-63

External links

• Sowerby, G. B. III. (1889). Descriptions of fourteen new species of shells from China, Japan, and the Andaman Islands, chiefly collected by Deputy Surgeon-Gen. R. Hungerford. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 56: 565-570, pl. 28
• 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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