Photo credit: (c) Takaaki Hattori, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
About this species
Nebularia chrysostoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Nebularia chrysostoma”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 2 records
- March: 4 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 0 records
- June: 0 records
- July: 1 records
- August: 3 records
- September: 2 records
- October: 2 records
- November: 1 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 26–30 °C
Photos
(c) Takaaki Hattori, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Names and classification
Names in 1 more languages
- Japanese
- コガネフデ, コガネヤタテ
Other scientific names: Chrysame chrysostoma, Mitra (Nebularia) chrysostoma, Mitra (Strigatella) chrysostoma, Mitra arnaloti, Mitra chrysostoma, Strigatella chrysostoma
Similar species
Rusty MiterNebularia ferruginea
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 137 open-data records from 1982 to 2012.
- Species data updated November 4, 2026.
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