Pseudonebularia cucumerina
Pseudonebularia cucumerina, common name : the kettle mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Pseudonebularia |
| Species: | P. cucumerina |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudonebularia cucumerina (Lamarck, 1811) | |
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Description
The shell size varies between 9 mm and 35 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Fiji, the Solomons Islands, the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, Papua New Guinea.
References
- "Mitra (Nebularia) cucumerina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- Pseudonebularia cucumerina (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 400
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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