Vexillum piceum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Vexillum piceum (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
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. piceum
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| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum piceum (Pease, 1860)
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Description
editThe shell is abbreviately fusiform, somewhat ventricose. The whole surface is decussated by narrow grooves, the longitudinal grooves are finely striated. The spire is rather short and acute. The sutures are well impressed. The aperture is strongly lirate within. The outer lip is denticulate. The columella is four-plaited. The shell is black. The spire and upper part of the body whorl are spotted with white, occasionally encircled with a single narrow white band. The transverse grooves are reddish-brown.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Hawaii.
References
edit- ^ Vexillum piceum (Pease, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Pease, W. H. (1865). Descriptions of new genera and species of marine shells from the islands of the Central Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1865): 512-517.
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