Scabricola caerulea

Scabricola caerulea
Shell of Scabricola caerulea (specimen in the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Scabricola
Species:	S. caerulea
Binomial name
Scabricola caerulea (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
Mitra caeruleaReeve, 1844 (original combination)

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. ^[1]

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. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

1. Scabricola caerulea (Reeve, 1844) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 04/24/10.
2. Reeve L.A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN   2-603-00654-1. 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