Isara nigra
| Isara nigra | |
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| Shell of Isara nigra (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Mitroidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Subfamily: | Isarinae |
| Genus: | Isara |
| Species: | I. nigra
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| Binomial name | |
| Isara nigra (Gmelin, 1791)
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Isara nigra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description[edit]
The length of the shell attains 20 mm.
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Distribution[edit]
This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.
References[edit]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Isara nigra (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063869 on 2019-01-04
- Quoy, H. E. Th. & Gaimard, P., 1833 Mollusques. Zoologie. In Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville, vol. 2(2), p. 321-686
External links[edit]
- Gmelin J.F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910
- 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