Swainsonia casta | |
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Plate 48. Mitra casta. Chesnut-banded Mitre. Modern accepted name (2012) is Scabricola casta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Swainsonia |
Species: | S. casta
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Binomial name | |
Swainsonia casta (Gmelin, 1791)
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Swainsonia casta, common name the chaste 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 20 mm and 55 mm.
This marine species occurs off East Africa to Japan; off Pitcairn and Polynesia