Nebularia contracta

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Nebularia contracta
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Shell of Nebularia contracta (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Nebularia
Species:
N. contracta
Binomial name
Nebularia contracta
(Swainson, 1820)
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Nebularia) contractaSwainson, 1820
  • Mitra contractaSwainson, 1820

Nebularia contracta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails. [1]

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.

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