Strigatella crassicostata

Strigatella crassicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1][2][3]

Strigatella crassicostata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Strigatellinae
Genus: Strigatella
Species:
S. crassicostata
Binomial name
Strigatella crassicostata
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Nebularia) aurantia crassicostata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
  • Mitra crassicostata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874

Description

This shell resembles Strigatella vexillum (Reeve, 1844) in form, but with few, thick, rounded ribs, deeply punctured grooves and strongly crenulated outer lip. [4]

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Strigatella crassicostata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934704 on 2019-01-04
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published


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