Vexillum pellucidum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexillum pellucidum (holotype) | |
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. pellucidum
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| Vexillum pellucidum (Tate, 1887)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 7 mm.
(Original description) The minute shell is slender, fusiform, translucent, colourless and polished. The protoconch is obtuse. The shell contains six whorls, flatly convex with a distinct suture. The two or three apical whorls are smooth, the rest show thick depressed axial ribs. The interstices are linear and puncturated. The body whorl is lirate at the base. The anterior portion of the columella is slightly recurved. The columella has three strong oblique plaits. The outer lip is not thickened and is smooth within. [2]
Distribution edit
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia.
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Vexillum pellucidum (Tate, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=591514 on 2018-12-31
- ^ Tate, R. (1887). Descriptions of some new species of South Australian marine and freshwater Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia. 9: 62-74, pls. 4, 5.
- 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
- Cernohorsky, W. O. (1979). "Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent Temperate Species of the Family Costellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 16: 109–169. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906279. Wikidata Q58677110.
- Turner, H. 1989. Ungewöhnliche und neue Mitroidea aus dem Indopazifik. Teil 1. Club Conchylia Informationen 21(5/6): 30-62
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.