Vexillum melongena is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
| Vexillum melongena | |
|---|---|
_-_Costellariidae_-_Mollusc_shell.jpeg)
| |
| Vexillum melongena (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. melongena
|
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum melongena (Lamarck, 1811)
| |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 58 mm.
The narrow, fusiform shell has a high spire. It contains eight whorls. It shows strong longitudinal ribs with weak spiral ridges that don't cross the ribs. The blue-white aperture is narrow. It is edged with purple brown. The outer lip is lirate. The pale brown columella has four white plaits. The siphonal canal is open and extended.
The color of the shell is chocolate brown or ash and white, in revolving bands and lines of variable thickness.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines, the South China Sea, Singapore to Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
References
edit- ^ Vexillum melongena (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Tryon (1882), Manual of Conchology IV
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
edit- Lamarck (J.B.M.de). (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Mitre (Mitra.). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 17: 195-222
- Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vexillum melongena.