Vexillum semisculptum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Shell of Vexillum semisculptum (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. semisculptum
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| Vexillum semisculptum (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 14 mm.
(original description) The shell has an oblong-fusiform shape, with a sharp, brown apex. The shell contains twelve whorls. The penultimate whorl and the body whorl are smooth, whilst the rest are highly sculptured The whorls are longitudinally ribbed. Their interstices are clathrate. The columella is three- to four-plaited. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is simple. The shell is of a lead-colour, darkly painted with fine rusty wavy lines and with a pale single band at the body whorl. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines; also off the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
References
edit- ^ Vexillum semisculptum (Adams & Reeve, 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Adams, A. & Reeve, L. A. (1848-1850). Mollusca. In A. Adams (ed.), The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846. Reeve & Benham, London, x + 87 pp., 24 pls
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