Vexillum revelatum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Shell of Vexillum revelatum (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. revelatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum revelatum (Melvill, 1899)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its diameter 8 mm.
The turriculate, white shell has a fusiform shape. It is solid and little shiny. It exhibits a form more compressed than Vexillum pacificum (Reeve, 1845) It contains 10-11 whorls. The whorls in the protoconch are often pinkish tinged. The other whorls are strongly shouldered, and angulate in the upper portion of each whorl, very rugose. The longitudinal ribs are smooth and obtuse. They are thinly brown-lined, in the middle dark brown-zoned. The white aperture is oblong. The outer lip is straight and thick. The columella is four-plaited. [2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vexillum revelatum (Melvill, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1309910 on 2023-05-02
- ^ Melvill, J. C. (1899). Notes on the Mollusca of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman, mostly dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, with descriptions of twenty-seven species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 7, 4(20): 81-101, pls 1-2.
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