Imbricaria annulata

Imbricaria annulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Imbricaria
Species:	I. annulata
Binomial name
	Imbricaria annulata; (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
	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.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 35 mm.

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

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

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