Swainsonia fissurata

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

Swainsonia fissurata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Swainsonia
Species:	S. fissurata
Binomial name
Swainsonia fissurata (Lamarck, 1811)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra fissurata Lamarck, 1811 Scabricola (Swainsonia) fissurata (Lamarck, 1811) Scabricola fissurata (Lamarck, 1811)

Description

The shell size varies between 21 mm and 65 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and the Mascarene Basin.