Scabricola caerulea

Scabricola caerulea, common name the blue mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Scabricola caerulea
Shell of Scabricola caerulea (specimen in the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Scabricola
Species:	S. caerulea
Binomial name
Scabricola caerulea (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
Mitra caerulea Reeve, 1844 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 27 mm.

Original description) The shell is somewhat fusiformly oblong and marked by regular, narrow, punctured transverse grooves. Its color is blueish-white, with the body whorl encircled by a broad blue band whose edges are spotted with white. The base and the aperture interior are orange-brown. The columella is five-plaited and umbilicated. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.