Imbricaria insculpta
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Imbricaria |
| Species: | I. insculpta
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| Imbricaria insculpta (A. Adams, 1851)
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Imbricaria insculpta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 28 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off Vietnam and the Philippines.
References
- ^ Imbricaria insculpta (A. Adams, 1851). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
External links
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- Sowerby, G. B., II. (1870). Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1870: 249-259
- 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.