Vexillum decorum, common name the graceful mitre, 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 decorum | |
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. decorum
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| Vexillum decorum (Reeve, 1845)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 19.3 mm.
(Original description) The shell is somewhat fusiform and contracted at the base. The spire is acuminately turreted. The sutures are deep. The shell is transversely impressly striated. The intermediate ridges are granulous, ornamented longitudinally with narrow rather distant concentric folds. The shell is white, encircled with an orange brown belt, the body whorl with two. The columella is four-plaited, umbilicated, slightly canalieulated.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Vexillum decorum (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599797 on 2018-12-31
- ^ Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.