Nebularia edentula, the toothless mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Nebularia |
| Species: | N. edentula
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| Binomial name | |
| Nebularia edentula (Swainson, 1823)
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Description edit
The shell size varies between 20 mm and 40 mm
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Distribution edit
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra and the Mascarene Basin
References edit
- ^ a b Nebularia edentula (Swainson, 1823). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 469
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp
- Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. 4 September 2009 Edition
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