Swainsonia fissurata, common name : the reticulate mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2017). Swainsonia fissurata (Lamarck, 1811). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217225 on 21 June 2017
Description
The shell size varies between 21 mm and 65 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and the Mascarene Basin.
References
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 126 Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.
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