Vexillum suluense is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[2]

Vexillum suluense
Vexillum suluense
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Species:
V. suluense
Binomial name
Vexillum suluense
(Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra exquisita Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1889 (not Garrett, 1873)
  • Mitra rectilateralis Sowerby, G.B. II & III, 1874
  • Mitra suluensis A. Adams & Reeve, 1850 superseded combination
  • Mitra (Vulpecula) tomlini Melvill, J.C., 1925 (not W. H. Turton, 1933)
  • Turricula rectilateralis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) suluense (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
  • Vexillum rectilateralis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)

Description

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The shell size varies between 5 mm and 30 mm

(Original description - described as Mitra rectilateralis ) The shell is turreted and acuminated. It is sculptured with straight longitudinal ribs and spiral striae. The body whorl is oblong, straight-sided above and below, banded with brown and white. The aperture is as long as the spire.

Distribution

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This species occurs off the Andaman Islands and in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, Fiji, the Solomons Islands, Papua New Guinea and Queensland, Australia.

References

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  1. ^ "Vexillum (Costellaria) suluense". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  2. ^ Vexillum (Costellaria) suluense (Adams & Reeve, 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 October 2010.
  • Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1889. Descriptions of fourteen new species of shells from China, Japan and the Andaman Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 56: 565-570, pl. 28
  • Melvill, J.C. 1925. Descriptions of nine new species of Mitridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16: 215-219
  • 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
  • Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 4. Of Sea and Shore 23(2): 70-84
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1–100-page(s): 63
  • 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.
  • Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51
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