Imbricaria annulata, common name the ringed mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Description The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 35 mm.
The shell is subovate, pale rose, encircled with angular ridges, painted on the angles with interrupted red-brown lines. It is longitudinally striated between the ridges.Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published
Distribution This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar down to Mozambique; off China and Japan; of the Marquesas
References
Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.
External links
Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. Kiener L.C. (1834-1841). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles. Vol. 3. Famille des Columellaires. Genres Mitre (Mitra), Lamarck, pp. 1-120, pl. 1-34 Melvill, J. C. (1888). Descriptions of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 281-288 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 Gastropods.com: Subcancilla annulata