Scabricola bicolor

Scabricola bicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Scabricola bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Scabricola
Species:	S. bicolor
Binomial name
Scabricola bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
Synonyms[1]
Imbricaria bicolor (Swainson, 1824) Imbricaria filum Wood, 1828 Mitra bicolor Swainson, 1824 Swainsonia bicolor (Swainson, 1824)

Description

The species was first described by William Swainson under the name Mitra bicolor. The shell is smooth, polished, fusiform, white, with a brown central band. It seldom exceeds three-quarters of an inch in length.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off East Africa; in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar; Mauritius; Comoros; Seychelles