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Cancilla gloriola

Domiporta gloriola
Cancilla gloriola 001.jpg
Domiporta gloriola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Domiporta
Species: D. gloriola
Binomial name
Domiporta gloriola
(Cernohorsky, 1970)
Synonyms
  • Cancilla (Domiporta) gloriola (Cernohorsky, 1970)
  • Cancilla gloriola Cernohorsky, 1970 (original combination)
  • Mitra gracilis Reeve, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra gravilis H.C. Lea, 1841)

Domiporta gloriola, common name : the glorious mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

The shell size varies between 40 mm and 67 mm

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Ryukyus, Japan


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