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Neotiara nodulosa

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3139177 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neotiara nodulosa, more commonly known as nodulose mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, also known as the miter snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 15 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina, the Bermudas to Brazil.

References

Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

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

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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 Q3139177. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neotiara nodulosa” 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.