Quasimitra bovei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[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 |
| Subfamily: | Mitrinae |
| Genus: | Quasimitra |
| Species: | Q. bovei
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| Quasimitra bovei Kiener, 1838
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 50.6 mm.
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Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Red Sea.
References edit
- ^ Quasimitra bovei (Kiener, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky, W.O., 1976 The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The subfamily Mitrinae. Indo Pacific Mollusca, vol. 3(17)
External links edit
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- Kiener L.C. (1834-1841). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles. Vol. 3. Famille des Columellaires. Genres Mitre (Mitra), Lamarck, pp. 1-120, pl. 1-34
- 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