Pseudonebularia_chrysalis

<i>Pseudonebularia chrysalis</i>

Pseudonebularia chrysalis

Species of mollusc

Pseudonebularia chrysalis, common name the chrysalis mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

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Description

The shell size varies between 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, Indonesia, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

References

  1. [1]
    Pseudonebularia chrysalis (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 402
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp
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