Vexillum wandoense 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. wandoense
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| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum wandoense (Holmes, 1859)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 6 mm.
(Original description) The small shell is sub-fusiform and ventricose. The spire is much longer than the aperture. The whorls are flattened and impressed with numerous transverse dotted grooves which become obsolete below the sutures. The sutures are distinct. The aperture is ear-shaped and contracted posteriorly. The outer lip is thin, simple and arcuated. The columella has three oblique plaits. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Venezuela.
Fossils have been found in Post-Pleistocene strata of South Carolina, USA.
References
edit- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas