Domiporta gloriola
Domiporta gloriola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Mitridae
Genus:
Domiporta
Species:
D. gloriola
Binomial name
Domiporta gloriola
(Cernohorsky, 1970)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cancilla (Domiporta) gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970)
  • Cancilla gloriola Cernohorsky, 1970 (original combination)
  • Mitra gracilis Reeve, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra gravilis H.C. Lea, 1841)
  • Neocancilla gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970)

Domiporta gloriola, common name : the glorious 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 40 mm and 67 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Ryukyus, Japan

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Domiporta gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719036 on 5 December 2014
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 97
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