Vexillum plicarium
Vexillum (Vexillum) plicarium | |
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Shell of Vexillum plicarium from Gilbert Islands at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Costellariidae |
Genus: | Vexillum |
Subgenus: | Vexillum |
Species: | V. plicarium |
Binomial name | |
Vexillum (Vexillum) plicarium (Linne, 1758) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Vexillum (Vexillum) plicarium, common name : the Plaited Mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 30 mm and 66 mm. This shell is usually white with black or dark brown spiral bands, but the basic color may also be cream or orange. The interior is white. The shape is fusiform, with various nodulose spiral ribs.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Andaman Sea and in the Pacific Ocean along Samoa and the Philippines.
References
- 1 2 Vexillum (Vexillum) plicarium (Linne, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 December 2010.
- Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 51
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218
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