Pseudonebularia cucumerina, common name : the kettle mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 9 mm and 35 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean off Fiji, the Solomons Islands, the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, Papua New Guinea.
References
Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 400 Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
External links
Lamarck (J.B.M.de). (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Mitre (Mitra.). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 17: 195-222 Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L. J. (1923). Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie. 67(2): 83-159 [15 February 1923]; 67(3): 179-259, pl. 2 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.