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Swainsonia casta
Plate 48. Mitra casta. Chesnut-banded Mitre. Modern accepted name (2012) is Scabricola casta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Swainsonia
Species:	S. casta
Binomial name
Swainsonia casta (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Mitra matronalis Schumacher, H.C.F., 1817 Mitra laevis Adams, A., 1853 Scabricola (Swainsonia) casta (Gmelin, 1791) Scabricola casta (Gmelin, 1791) Voluta casta Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Swainsonia casta, common name the chaste mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 55 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off East Africa to Japan; off Pitcairn and Polynesia

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2017). Swainsonia casta. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934812 on 2017-06-21

• Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.

External links

• "Scabricola (Swainsonia) casta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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• Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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