Quasimitra nubila
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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: | Quasimitra |
| Species: | Q. nubila
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| Binomial name | |
| Quasimitra nubila (Gmelin, 1791)
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Quasimitra nubila, common name the particolored mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description[edit]
The size of the shell varies between 34 mm and 81 mm.
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Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Indo-West Pacific
References[edit]
- ^ a b Quasimitra nubila (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
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