Nebularia fastigium

Nebularia fastigium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Nebularia
Species:	N. fastigium
Binomial name
	Nebularia fastigium; (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
	Mitra (Strigatella) fastigium Reeve, 1845; Mitra punctata Swainson, W.A., 1829; Mitra fuscescens Pease, W.H., 1860; Mitra brunnea Pease, 1868; Mitra nitilina (Spry, 1961); Strigatella brunnea (Pease, 1868); Strigatella nitilina Spry, 1961;

Nebularia fastigium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Description[]

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 31 mm

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along New Zealand

Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 494
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp

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