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Strigatella aurantia (Gmelin 1791)

Strigatella aurantia

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Strigatella aurantia (common name: orange mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Description

The adult shell size varies between 21 mm and 58 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean at Mozambique, and in the Pacific Ocean at Papua New Guinea and the Solomons.

Strigatella aurantia aurantia forma nanus

References

  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 425
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp

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Strigatella aurantia: Brief Summary

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Strigatella aurantia (common name: orange mitre) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

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