Vexillum echinatum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexillum echinatum | |
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. echinatum
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| Vexillum echinatum (A. Adams, 1853)
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 28 mm.
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Distribution edit
Red Sea; Tropical Indo-Pacific to Polynesia; also off the Philippines.
References edit
- ^ Vexillum echinatum (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Fedosov, A. E., and Yu I. Kantor. "Evolution of carnivorous gastropods of the family Costellariidae (Neogastropoda) in the framework of molecular phylogeny." Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal 20.2 (2010): 117-139.
External links edit
- Adams, A. (1853). Description of fifty-two new species of the genus Mitra, from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1851) 19: 132-141
- Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)
- TRöNdLÉ, J. E. A. N., and Michel Boutet. "Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia." Atoll Research Bulletin (2009).
- McKenna, Sheila A. "The condition of coral reefs in northwest Madagascar." A Rapid Marine Biodiversity Assessment of the Coral Reefs of Northwest Madagascar. Bulletin of the Rapid Assessment Program 31 (2003): 54-67.
- Salvat, Bernard, and Jean Tröndlé. "Biogéographie des mollusques marins de Polynésie française." Revue d'Ecologie, Terre et Vie 72.3 (2017): 215-257.