Vexillum puerile 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. puerile
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| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum puerile (Cooke, 1885)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 4.9 mm.
The small shell is somewhat elongated. The spire is turreted, but not sharply. The suture is deepish. The shell is strongly angled beneath the suture and longitudinally strongly ribbed. There are ten ribs on the body whorl. These are rounded and crossed by well-marked rather distant transverse lines which are coloured on the top of the ribs. The colour is light flesh-tinted which (in fresh specimens) a deeper broad band on the lower half of the body whorl. The columella is four-plaited. [2]
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Red Sea
References edit
- ^ Vexillum puerile (Cooke, 1885). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Cooke, A. H. (1885). Report on the testaceous Mollusca obtained during a dredging excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months February and March 1869 by Robert MacAndrew. Republished, with additions and corrections. Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 15: 322-339.
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