Episcomitra cornicula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1][2]
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| Shell of Episcomitra cornicula (lectotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Subfamily: | Mitrinae |
| Genus: | Episcomitra |
| Species: | E. cornicula
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| Binomial name | |
| Episcomitra cornicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 11 mm and 40 mm.
The shell is short, solid, ventricose and chestnut. The whorls are rounded, the body whorl ventricose in the middle, contracted below, with two or three spiral grooves. The outer lip is flexuous.[3]
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean and in tropical seas.
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Episcomitra cornicula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1060398 on 2019-01-04
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- Menke, C.T. (1829) Verzeichniss der Ansehnlichen Conchylien-Sammlung des Freiherrn von den Malsburg. Heinrich Gelpte, Pyrmont, vi + 123 pp
External links edit
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- 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