Gemmulimitra avenacea

Gemmulimitra avenacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Gemmulimitra
Species:	G. avenacea
Binomial name
	Gemmulimitra avenacea; (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
	Mitra avenacea Reeve, 1845; Mitra hanleyi Sowerby, 1874; Mitra (Nebularia) indentata Orbigny, A.V.M.D. d', 1841; Mitra indentata Sowerby, 1874;

Gemmulimitra avenacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[2]

Description[]

The shell size varies between 12 mm and 32 mm

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea

'Mitra (Nebularia) avenacea', abapertural view

Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 411
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice