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Domiporta circula

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ61701743 ↗
Source-derived summary

Domiporta circula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails. Their shell size ranges from 15 mm to 58 mm.

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean along Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Tuamotus and Fiji

References

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp

Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988).

Editorial summary

“Domiporta circula” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Domiporta, circula and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 1958, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Domiporta, circula and species.
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“Domiporta circula” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Domiporta, circula and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61701743. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1958 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Domiporta circula” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.