Pseudonebularia chrysalis

Pseudonebularia chrysalis, common name the chrysalis mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Pseudonebularia chrysalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Pseudonebularia
Species:	P. chrysalis
Binomial name
Pseudonebularia chrysalis (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra chrysalis Reeve, 1844 Mitra caledonica Récluz, C., 1853 Mitra buryi Melvill, J.C. & E. R. Sykes, 1899 Strigatella buryi Melville & Sykes

Description

The shell size varies between 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, Indonesia, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea and Australia.