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Nebularia pyramis

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Nebularia pyramis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Nebularia
Species:
N. pyramis
Binomial name
Nebularia pyramis
(Wood, 1828)
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Nebularia) pyramis (Wood, 1828)
  • Mitra pyramis (Wood, 1828)
  • Voluta pyramis Wood, 1828

Nebularia pyramis (common name: Pyramis mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Description

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The shell size is 50 mm (2.0 in),
but 70 mm. giants are known from the Phillipines.

Distribution

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This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

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  1. ^ Nebularia pyramis (Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 424
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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