Quasimitra variabilis

Quasimitra variabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Quasimitra
Species:	Q. variabilis
Binomial name
Quasimitra variabilis (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra cylindracea Reeve, 1844 Mitra polymorpha Tomlin, 1920 (unnecessary substitute name for Mitra variabilis, by Tomlin treated as a secondary homonym of Voluta variabilis Link, 1807) Mitra variabilis Reeve, 1844

Quasimitra variabilis, common name: the variable mitre, 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 20 mm and 46 mm.

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Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Pacific Ocean off Australia.

References[]

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

External links[]

• Reeve L.A. (1844–1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 2, pl. 1–39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1–7, August 1844; pl. 8–15, September 1844; pl. 16–19, October 1844; pl. 20–23, November 1844; pl. 24–27, December 1844; pl. 28–29, January 1845; pl. 30 imprinted March 1844, presumably March 1845; pl. 31–39, March 1845]
• Gastropods.com: Mitra (Mitra) variabilis; accessed: 11 December 2010
• omlin J.R. le B. (1920). On certain of Link's names in the Mitridae. The Nautilus. 33: 133–134
• Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253–337