Domiporta praestantissima, the most superior mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the miter snail family.[1]
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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: | Domiporta |
| Species: | D. praestantissima
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| Binomial name | |
| Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1758)
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Description edit
The shell size varies between 20 mm and 61 mm.
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean off Polynesia
and off Japan.
References edit
- ^ a b Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
- 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.
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