Nebularia_pellisserpentis

<i>Nebularia pellisserpentis</i>

Nebularia pellisserpentis

Species of gastropod

Nebularia pellisserpentis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

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Description

The white shell is narrow and subcylindrical. It is decussated with longitudinal striae and slight spiral sulci. The aperture is as long as the spire. The outer lip is finely crenulated within, sinuously produced in the middle, acutely toothed. The whorls are banded with brown above and compressed at the sides.[2]

(Described as Mitra nassoides) The thick shell is pale yellowish, oblong-subgibbose, subcancellated with rather unequal crenated longitudinal ribs and spiral undulated ridges nodose upon the ribs. The aperture equals the spire in length and is sinuously contracted. The outer lip is toothed, acuminated above the middle, angular below the middle, acuminated in front. [2]

Distribution

The holotype of this marine species was found off the Philippines.

References

  1. [1]
    Nebularia pellisserpentis (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2018.
  2. [2]
    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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