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Austromitra
Sign in to saveAustromitra is a genus of sea snails in the family Costellariidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyCostellariidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 375
- With media
- 29
- Family
- Costellariidae
- Collections
- MNHN, TMAG, NMV
- Recorded in
- Western Australia, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Sud Madagascar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Costellariidae
- Image
- Austromitra analogica 001.jpg
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- Commons category
- Austromitra
- taxon name
- Austromitra
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Austromitra
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Austromitra is a genus of sea snails in the family Costellariidae.
They are small carnivorous marine gastropod mollusks, most of which are less than 15mm in length. They live on hard substrates, intertidally and to a depth of at least 1000m. The genus is found in southern Africa, southern Australia, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Austromitra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.