Domiporta circula

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Domiporta circula
Domiporta circula 01.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Domiporta
Species:
D. circula
Binomial name
Domiporta circula
(Kiener, 1838)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra circula Kiener, 1838
  • Neocancilla circula (Kiener, 1838)
  • Subcancilla circula (Kiener, 1838)

Domiporta circula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1] Their shell size ranges from 15 mm to 58 mm.

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean along Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Tuamotus and Fiji

References[]

  1. ^ a b Domiporta circula (Kiener, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 112

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