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| Quasimitra variabilis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Quasimitra |
| Species: | Q. variabilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Quasimitra variabilis (Reeve, 1844) | |
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Quasimitra variabilis, common name: the variable mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description
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The shell size varies between 20 mm and 46 mm. Quasimitra variabilis is a marine benthic gastropod that inhabits the sea floor.[2] Its shell is dextrally coiled, or right-handed, and shows variable coloration and patterning. The species has been recorded off the coast of Queensland, Australia, indicating part of its range in the Pacific Ocean.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Pacific Ocean off Australia.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Quasimitra variabilis (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- ↑ "Quasimitra variabilis". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
- ↑ "Quasimitra variabilis Specimen". Museum Victoria Collections. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
External links
[edit]- Reeve L.A. (1844–1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 2, pl. 1–39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1–7, August 1844; pl. 8–15, September 1844; pl. 16–19, October 1844; pl. 20–23, November 1844; pl. 24–27, December 1844; pl. 28–29, January 1845; pl. 30 imprinted March 1844, presumably March 1845; pl. 31–39, March 1845]
- Gastropods.com: Mitra (Mitra) variabilis; accessed: 11 December 2010
- omlin J.R. le B. (1920). On certain of Link's names in the Mitridae. The Nautilus. 33: 133–134
- 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