Strigatella luctuosa

Strigatella luctuosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. luctuosa
Binomial name
	Strigatella luctuosa; (A. Adams, 1813)
Synonyms
	Mitra (Nebularia) luctuosa Adams, A., 1853; Mitra rutila Adams, A., 1853; Mitra nigricans Pease, W.H., 1865; Mitra lamberti Souverbie, S.M., 1875; Mitra astyridiformis Melvill, J.C., 1888; Mitra townsendi Melvill, J.C., 1904; Mitra albocoronata Schepman, M.M., 1911; Mitra alcida Cate, J.M., 1963; Mitra diamantina Cate, J.M., 1963;

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

Description[edit]

The shell size varies between 16 mm and 35 mm.

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin, Mozambique, Transkei (RFA) and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 443
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice