Mitra nubila

Mitra nubila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Mitra (gastropod)
Species:	M. nubila
Binomial name
*Mitra nubila* (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms^[1]
Mitra (Mitra) nubila (Gmelin, 1791) Mitra brettinghami Smith, E.A., 1906 Mitra erronea Dohrn, H., 1861 Mitra nebulosa Reeve, L.A., 1844 Mitra nivosa Swainson, W.A., 1822 Mitra propinqua Adams, A., 1853 Mitra sanguinolenta Küster, H.C., 1839 Mitra versicolor Martyn, 1784 (non-binominal)

Mitra 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

The size of the shell varies between 34 mm and 81 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Indo-West Pacific

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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