The artless miter [2] ( lat. Nebularia incompta ) is a species of marine gastropod mollusks from the family Mithrida (Mitridae) [1] .
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Synonyms
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Description
The length of the shell is from 4.4 to 16 cm [2] . Sink elongated, with a high curl. The surface of the sink is smooth.
The species is common in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania and the Mascaren Islands , in the Indo-Pacific region. Lives at a depth of 10 to 250 m [2] .
Like all mitres, it is a predator and feeds on small gastropods and bivalves.
Synonyms
The synonymics of a taxon includes the following binomens [1] :
- Mitra (Mitra) incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Mitra incompta (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Mitra terebralis Lamarck, 1811
- Mitra tessellata Martyn, 1784
- Voluta incompta Lightfoot, 1786
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Species of Nebularia incompta (English) in the World Register of Marine Species . (Retrieved April 26, 2019) .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ershov V.E. , Kantor Yu. I. Sea shells. Brief identifier. - M .: Italic, 2008 .-- S. 184. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-89592-059-6 .
Literature
- Spry JF (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56.
- Cernohorsky WO (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3 (17): 323.
- Drivas J. & Jay M. (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice.