Imbricaria flammea

Imbricaria flammea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Imbricaria
Species:	I. flammea
Binomial name
	Imbricaria flammea; (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Synonyms
	Mitra flammigera Reeve, 1844; Mitra interlirata Reeve, 1844; Subcancilla flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833); Ziba flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833);

Imbricaria flammea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Description[]

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 34 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and Mauritius; Indo-West Pacific.

Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21–74
Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 52

This Mitridae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .