title: Strigatella tristis
text: # Strigatella tristis
  
  Strigatella tristis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the mitres or mitre snails.
  
  ## Description
  
  (Described as Mitra albofasciata) This rough South African shell is placed in this section because of its cylindrical form. It is darkly coloured and longitudinally wrinkled, with a white band at the suture of the whorls where they are a little shouldered.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs off the Galapagos Islands
  
  