Vexillum unifasciatum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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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. unifasciatum
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| Vexillum unifasciatum (Wood, 1828)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 24.9 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Indo-West and Central Pacific: off Mauritius and Mozambique, the Philippines and Hawaii; also off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)
References
edit- ^ a b Vexillum unifasciatum (Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1-59, pls 1-8.
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
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