Strigatella tristis

Strigatella tristis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the mitres or mitre snails.^[1]

Strigatella tristis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Strigatella
Species:	S. tristis
Binomial name
Strigatella tristis (Broderip, 1836)
Synonyms
Mitra (Strigatella) tristis Broderip, 1836 Mitra albofasciata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 · Mitra tristis Broderip, 1836

Description

(Described as Mitra albofasciata) This rough South African shell is placed in this section because of its cylindrical form. It is darkly coloured and longitudinally wrinkled, with a white band at the suture of the whorls where they are a little shouldered. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Galapagos Islands