Imbricaria yagurai
Shell of Imbricaria yagurai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Imbricariinae
Genus: Imbricaria
Species:
I. yagurai
Binomial name
Imbricaria yagurai
(Kira, 1959)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Tiara) yagurai Kira, 1959
  • Mitra yagurai Kira, 1959
  • Subcancilla yagurai (Kira, 1959)

Imbricaria yagurai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1][2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Imbricaria yagurai (Kira, 1959). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1061627 on 2019-01-04
  2. 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.


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