Strigatella tristis

Strigatella tristis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. tristis
Binomial name
Strigatella tristis (Broderip, 1836)
Synonyms
Mitra (Strigatella) tristisBroderip, 1836 Mitra albofasciataG. B. Sowerby II, 1874 · Mitra tristisBroderip, 1836

Strigatella tristis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the mitres or mitre snails. ^[1]

Description

(Described as Mitra albofasciata) This rough South African shell is placed in this section because of its cylindrical form. It is darkly coloured and longitudinally wrinkled, with a white band at the suture of the whorls where they are a little shouldered. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Galapagos Islands

References

1. Strigatella tristis (Broderip, 1836) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 12 December 2018.
2. 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

External links

• Broderip W.J. (1836 ("1835") ). Characters of new genera and species of the Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming
• 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