Vexillum mutabile, common name the changeable mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]

Vexillum mutabile
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Species:
V. mutabile
Binomial name
Vexillum mutabile
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Mitra montrouzieri Souverbie, 1875(invalid: junior homonym of Mitra...)
  • Mitra mutabilis Reeve, 1845 (original combination)
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) mutabile (Reeve, 1845)
Abapertural view

Description

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The length of the shell attains 19 mm.

(Original description) The shell is abbreviately fusiform. The spire is turreted, sometimes elevated, sometimes rather short. The sutures are somewhat deep. The whorls are depressed at the upper part and longitudinally concentrically ribbed. The ribs are narrow, latticed with fine transverse ridges. The shell is whitish, banded with olive-green. The apex is brown. The columella is four-plaited. [2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Philippines, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea; also off Australia (Queensland)

References

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  • Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49.
  • Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259
  • Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 3. Of Sea and Shore 23(1): 4-14
  • Arnaud, J.P., Berthault, C., Jeanpierre, R., Martin, J.C. & Martin, P. 2002. Costellariidae et Mitridae de Nouvelle Calédonie. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 100: 52 pp.
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  • Souverbie, [M.. (1875). Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien (22e article). Journal de Conchyliologie. 23(4): 282-296, pl. 13.]