Nebularia petrosa

Nebularia petrosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1][2]

Nebularia petrosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Mitroidea
Family:	Mitridae
Subfamily:	Cylindromitrinae
Genus:	Nebularia
Species:	N. petrosa
Binomial name
Nebularia petrosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra petrosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Mutyca petrosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)

Description

The thick shell is white. The spire is striated and fusiform. The spire is pyramidal. The whorls are sloped. The body whorl is tumid in middle. The aperture is as long as the spire and is channelled at the suture. The outer lip is smooth, thick, contracted anteriorly, rather angular, short and recurved over the siphonal canal.^[3] Shell size 40 mm.

Distribution

Philippines.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Nebularia petrosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063503 on 2019-01-04
2. 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.
3. Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published