Imbricaria yagurai

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

Imbricaria yagurai
Shell of Imbricaria yagurai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Imbricariinae
Genus: Imbricaria
Species:
I. yagurai
Binomial name
Imbricaria yagurai
(Kira, 1959)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Tiara) yagurai Kira, 1959
  • Mitra yagurai Kira, 1959
  • Subcancilla yagurai (Kira, 1959)

Description

The length of the shell attains 35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Imbricaria yagurai (Kira, 1959). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1061627 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.


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