Imbricaria fulgetrum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
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| Shell of Imbricaria fulgetrum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Imbricaria |
| Species: | I. fulgetrum
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| Binomial name | |
| Imbricaria fulgetrum (Reeve, 1844)
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Description edit
The shell size varies between 15 mm and 28 mm
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean off Papua New Guinea, Solomons Islands and Fiji.
References edit
- ^ a b Imbricaria fulgetrum (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 40
External links edit
- Reeve L.A. (1844–1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
- 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
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