Imbricaria annulata | |
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Shell of Imbricaria annulata (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Imbricaria |
Species: | I. annulata
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Binomial name | |
Imbricaria annulata (Reeve, 1844)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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