Strigatella luctuosa

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Strigatella luctuosa
Mitra luctuosa 001.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. luctuosa
Binomial name
Strigatella luctuosa
(A. Adams, 1813)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Nebularia) luctuosa Adams, A., 1853
  • Mitra rutila Adams, A., 1853
  • Mitra nigricans Pease, W.H., 1865
  • Mitra lamberti Souverbie, S.M., 1875
  • Mitra astyridiformis Melvill, J.C., 1888
  • Mitra townsendi Melvill, J.C., 1904
  • Mitra albocoronata Schepman, M.M., 1911
  • Mitra alcida Cate, J.M., 1963
  • Mitra diamantina Cate, J.M., 1963

Strigatella luctuosa 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 16 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution[]

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin, Mozambique, Transkei (RFA) and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

References[]

  1. ^ "Mitra (Nebularia) luctuosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  2. ^ Strigatella luctuosa (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 December 2018.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 443
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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