Cancilla isabella

Cancilla isabella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Cancilla
Species: C. isabella
Binomial name
Cancilla isabella
Swainson, 1831
Synonyms
  • Tiara isabella Swainson, 1831
  • Mitra morchii Adams, 1855
  • Mitra herklotsiana Dohrn, 1861
  • Mitra (Scabricola) yokoyamai Nomura, 1935
  • Tiara acuminata Shuto, 1969

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

Description

The species was first described by William Swainson as Tiara isabella. The shell is slender, fawn coloured, unspotted, and marked by slender crowded, transverse, convex ribs with the interstices deeply cancellated.

Distribution

The type specimen was obtained from "New Holland", i.e. Australia.

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