Strigatella_crassicostata

<i>Strigatella crassicostata</i>

Strigatella crassicostata

Species of gastropod

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

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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. [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. [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. [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. [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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