Strigatella assimilis

Strigatella assimilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Strigatella assimilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. assimilis
Binomial name
Strigatella assimilis
(Pease, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Mitra assimilis Pease, 1868
  • Mitra (Strigatella) assimilis Pease, 1868
  • Mitra turturina Souverbie, S.M., 1875

The species name Mitra assimilis Garrett, 1873 has been declared a synonym of Vexillum (Pusia) crocatum (Lamarck, 1811) [2]

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 25 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific.

References
  1. Strigatella assimilis (Pease, 1868). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
  2. Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 18
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 486


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