Imbricaria salisburyi
Imbricaria salisburyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1][2]
Imbricaria salisburyi | |
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Shell of Imbricaria salisburyi (holotype at MNHN? Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Mitroidea |
Family: | Mitridae |
Subfamily: | Imbricariinae |
Genus: | Imbricaria |
Species: | I. salisburyi |
Binomial name | |
Imbricaria salisburyi (Drivas & Jay, 1990) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 21 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Réunion and the Philippines
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Imbricaria salisburyi.
- MolluscaBase (2018). Imbricaria salisburyi (Drivas & Jay, 1990). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1061620 on 2019-01-04
- 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.
- Drivas J. & Jay M. (1990). Descriptions of new mollusks from Réunion Island -II. Cerithidae, Lamellariidae, Buccinidae, Mitridae, and Veneridae. Venus. 49(4): 271–279.
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