Swainsonia fissurata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Mitridae |
Genus: | Swainsonia |
Species: | S. fissurata
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Binomial name | |
Swainsonia fissurata (Lamarck, 1811)
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Swainsonia fissurata, common name : the reticulate mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
The shell size varies between 21 mm and 65 mm.
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and the Mascarene Basin.