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Imbricaria annulata
Shell of Imbricaria annulata (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Imbricaria
Species:	I. annulata
Binomial name
Imbricaria annulata (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
Mitra (Cancilla) annulata Reeve, 1844 Mitra acutilirata Sowerby III, 1874 Mitra annulata Reeve, 1844 (original combination) Mitra marionae Melvill, J.C., 1888 Mitra nitens Kiener, L.C., 1838 Subcancilla annulata (Reeve, 1844) Ziba annulata (Reeve, 1844)

Imbricaria annulata, common name the ringed 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 8 mm and 35 mm.

The shell is subovate, pale rose, encircled with angular ridges, painted on the angles with interrupted red-brown lines. It is longitudinally striated between the ridges.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar down to Mozambique; off China and Japan; of the Marquesas

References

1. ^ Imbricaria annulata (Reeve, 1844). 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

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.

External links

• Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
• Kiener L.C. (1834-1841). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles. Vol. 3. Famille des Columellaires. Genres Mitre (Mitra), Lamarck, pp. 1-120, pl. 1-34
• Melvill, J. C. (1888). Descriptions of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 281-288
• 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
• Gastropods.com: Subcancilla annulata

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