Domiporta circula

Domiporta circula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Domiporta
Species:	D. circula
Binomial name
	Domiporta circula; (Kiener, 1838)
Synonyms
	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[]

^ ^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

External links[]

Gastropods.com : Neocancilla circula; accessed : 11 December 2010

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[WoRMS-1] Domiporta circula (Kiener, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.

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