| Swainsonia fissurata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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.