Scabricola caerulea, common name the blue mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Description The length of the shell attains 27 mm.
Original description) The shell is somewhat fusiformly oblong and marked by regular, narrow, punctured transverse grooves. Its color is blueish-white, with the body whorl encircled by a broad blue band whose edges are spotted with white. The base and the aperture interior are orange-brown. The columella is five-plaited and umbilicated. Reeve L.A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co.
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Philippines.
References
Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. . 159 pp. Cernohorsky W.O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 4: ii + 164 pp. 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.
External links 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