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Swainsonia fusca
Swainsonia fusca, common name : the dusky mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
From the article Swainsonia fusca on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The shell is nearly spindle-shaped, entirely brown and marked by bands of punctured dots. Size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm.
Range & habitat
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin and in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 884823.