Imbricaria conularis

Imbricaria conularis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Imbricaria
Species:	I. conularis
Binomial name
Imbricaria conularis (Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms
Conoelix lineatus Swainson, 1821 Imbricaria conica Schumacher, 1817 Imbricaria conularis f. crouani (Crosse, 1868) Mitra conularis Lamarck, 1811 (original combination)

Imbricaria conularis, common name the cone mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 26 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Australia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and French Polynesia.

References

• 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.
• 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
• 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.

External links

• Media related to Imbricaria conularis at Wikimedia Commons
• Lamarck [J.B.M.de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Mitre (Mitra.). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 17: 195-222
• Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.
• 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