Gemmulimitra avenacea
| Gemmulimitra avenacea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Gemmulimitra |
| Species: | G. avenacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Gemmulimitra avenacea (Reeve, 1845) | |
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Gemmulimitra avenacea (Reeve, 1845) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, commonly called the miters or miter snails.[2] It is a recently accepted combination following modern revisions of the genus Mitra[3]
Classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Subclass: Caenogastropoda
- Order: Neogastropoda
- Superfamily: Mitroidea
- Family: Mitridae
- Subfamily: Mitrinae
- Genus: Gemmulimitra
- Species: Gemmulimitra avenacea (Reeve, 1845)
The genus Gemmulimitra was established by Fedosov, Herrmann, Kantor and Bouchet in 2018. WoRMS currently lists G. avenacea as an accepted species in that genus.[4]
Description
The shell size varies between 12 mm and 32 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea.
References
- ↑ OBIS : Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea
- ↑ Gemmulimitra avenacea (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
- ↑ "Bathytoma netrion". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Gemmulimitra avenacea". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 411
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice