Condylomitra tuberosa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Condylomitra |
| Species: | C. tuberosa
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| Condylomitra tuberosa (Reeve, 1845)
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Condylomitra tuberosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, the Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea; off Australia (New South Wales, Queensland)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Condylomitra tuberosa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
- Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259
- Cotton, B.C. 1957. Family Mitridae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 12: 8 pp.
- Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190
- Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp.
- Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
- Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Guillot de Suduiraut, E. 2000. Contribution à la connaissance de quelques gastéropides mitriformes e l'archipel des Philippines (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mitridae & Costellariidae). Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 89: 8-12