Vexillum accinctum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexillum accinctum (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. accinctum
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| Vexillum accinctum (G. B. Sowerby III, 1907)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 16 mm.
This species belongs to the group of Vexillum luculentum (Reeve, 1845) ; in colour and banding it somewhat resembles Mitra montrouzieri Tapparone-Canefri, 1874) but it is of a narrower form and the ribs are much less numerous, rounded, smooth, and in some cases almost obsolete on the body whorl. The specimens present some variation in the disposition of the colour lines and bands, but the most characteristic specimens have, as in the type, two brown lines or narrow zones in the middle of the penultimate and towards the upper part of the body whorl, with a whitish zone between.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Japan, New Caledonia and Australia; also off Mozambique.
References
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- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Vexillum accinctum (G. B. Sowerby III, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=591526 on 2018-12-31
- ^ Sowerby, G. B. III. (1907). Descriptions of new marine Mollusca from New Caledonia, etc. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 7: 299-303, pl. 25