Pterygia dactylus

Pterygia dactylus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Pterygia
Species:
P. dactylus
Binomial name
Pterygia dactylus
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
  • Pterygia nucella Röding, 1798
  • Voluta dactylus Linnaeus, 1767 (original combination)

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

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Guam and Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. ^ Pterygia dactylus (Linnaeus, 1767). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/24/10.
  • Cernohorsky W.O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 4: ii + 164 pp.
  • Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp
  • Tsuchiya K. (2017). Family Mitridae. pp. 973–982, in: T. Okutani (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp
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