''Mitromorpha azorensis'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Mitromorphidae Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...

Description

The length of the shell varies between .

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Azores.

References

* Mifsud, C., 2001 ''The genus Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865 and its subgenera with European species'', p. 32 pp

External links

MNHN, Paris: ''Mitromorpha azorensis'' (holotype)
* azorensis Gastropods described in 2001 {{mitromorpha-stub