Pseudonebularia indentata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Mitrinae
Genus: Pseudonebularia
Species:
P. indentata
Binomial name
Pseudonebularia indentata
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)
Synonyms[1]

Mitra indentata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874

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

Description

The shell is whitish. It is spirally few-ridged. The aperture is narrow and longer than spire. The outer lip is contracted in the middle, strongly crenulated, rather acuminated anteriorly. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Pseudonebularia indentata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1060619 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.
  3. Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published


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