Condylomitra tuberosa

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Condylomitra tuberosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Condylomitra tuberosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Condylomitra
Species:
C. tuberosa
Binomial name
Condylomitra tuberosa
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra patriarchalis Lamarck, 1811
  • Mitra tuberosa Reeve, 1845
  • Pusia meganodosa MacNeil, F.S. 1960
  • Pusia tuberosa (Reeve, 1845)
  • Vexillum tuberosum (Reeve, 1845)

Description

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The shell size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, the Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea; off Australia (New South Wales, Queensland)

References

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  1. ^ a b Condylomitra tuberosa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
  • Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259
  • Cotton, B.C. 1957. Family Mitridae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 12: 8 pp.
  • Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190
  • Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp.
  • Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
  • Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Guillot de Suduiraut, E. 2000. Contribution à la connaissance de quelques gastéropides mitriformes e l'archipel des Philippines (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mitridae & Costellariidae). Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 89: 8-12
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