Finger miter
Pterygia dactylus
- Water temperature25–30 °C
- Best monthsJune, July, and August
- How commonRare
About this species
Pterygia dactylus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Pterygia dactylus”, 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: 2 records
- February: 2 records
- March: 0 records
- April: 2 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 3 records
- July: 4 records
- August: 3 records
- September: 1 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 2 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 25–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Finger miter, Finger mitre, finger miter, finger mitre
Names in 3 more languages
- German
- Finger-Mitra
- Japanese
- イモフデ, イモフデガイ
- Simplified Chinese
- 拇指筆螺
Other scientific names: Pterygia nucella, Voluta dactylus
Similar species
- Fenestrate miter
Pterygia fenestrata
- Rough miter
Pterygia scabricula
- Episcopal miter
Mitra mitra
- Lettered Mitre
Strigatella litterata
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).
- 130 open-data records from 1922 to 2012.
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