Domiporta filaris

Domiporta filaris, commonly known as the file mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Domiporta filaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Domiporta
Species:	D. filaris
Binomial name
Domiporta filaris (Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms[1]
Cancilla (Domiporta) filaris (Linnaeus, 1771) Cancilla filaris (Linnaeus, 1771) Cancilla filiaris [sic] (misspelling) Domiporta filaris (Linnaeus, C., 1771) Domiporta filosa bernardiana Philippi, R.A., 1850 Mitra bornii Philippi, R.A., 1850 Mitra crebrilineata Sowerby, G.B. II, 1874 Mitra filaris (Linnaeus, 1771) Mitra filiaris [sic] (misspelling) Mitra nexilis "Martyn, T." Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Voluta filaris Linnaeus, 1771 (original combination) Voluta filosa Born, I. von, 1778 Voluta leucosticta Gmelin, J.F., 1791

Description

The shell size varies between 14 mm and 55 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Chagos and the Mascarene Basin and in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii and Australia.