Swainsonia newcombii , common name Newcomb's mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Swainsonia newcombii
Shell of Swainsonia newcombii (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Imbricariinae
Genus: Swainsonia
Species:
S. newcombii
Binomial name
Swainsonia newcombii
(Pease, 1869)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra newcombii Pease, 1869 (original combination)
  • Scabricola (Swainsonia) newcombii (Pease, 1869)
  • Scabricola newcombii (Pease, 1869)
Subspecies
  • Swainsonia newcombii irisae (Le Béon, 2014)
  • Swainsonia newcombii newcombii (Pease, 1869)

Description edit

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 41 mm.

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs off Hawaii, Midway, New Caledonia and Tanzania.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2017). Swainsonia newcombii (Pease, 1869). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934814 on 2017-06-22
  • Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.
  • Le Beon R., 2014, 2013. - Revision of the taxon Scabricola newcombii (Pease, 1869). Description of a new taxon: Scabricola newcombii irisae n. ssp. from New Caledonia and the Philippines. Xenophora Taxonomy 2: 30-33

External links edit

  • "Scabricola (Swainsonia) newcombii newcombii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Pease W. H. (1869). Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 5: 64-79
  • 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