Quasimitra variabilis

Quasimitra variabilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Quasimitra
Species:	Q. variabilis
Binomial name
Quasimitra variabilis (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
Mitra cylindracea Reeve, 1844 Mitra polymorpha Tomlin, 1920 (unnecessary substitute name for Mitra variabilis, by Tomlin treated as a secondary homonym of Voluta variabilis Link, 1807) Mitra variabilis Reeve, 1844

Quasimitra variabilis, common name: the variable mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 46 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Pacific Ocean off Australia.

References

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

External links

• Reeve L.A. (1844–1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 2, pl. 1–39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1–7, August 1844; pl. 8–15, September 1844; pl. 16–19, October 1844; pl. 20–23, November 1844; pl. 24–27, December 1844; pl. 28–29, January 1845; pl. 30 imprinted March 1844, presumably March 1845; pl. 31–39, March 1845]
• Gastropods.com: Mitra (Mitra) variabilis; accessed: 11 December 2010
• omlin J.R. le B. (1920). On certain of Link's names in the Mitridae. The Nautilus. 33: 133–134
• 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