Vexitomina coxi, common name Cox's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Vexitomina coxi
Original image of a shell of Vexitomina coxi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Vexitomina
Species:
V. coxi
Binomial name
Vexitomina coxi
(Angas G.F., 1867)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia agnewia Tenison-Woods, 1879
  • Drillia coxi Angas, 1867
  • Drillia trailli Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1906
  • Inquisitor coxi (Angas, 1867)
  • Paradrillia (Paradrillia) coxi (Angas, 1867)
  • Paradrillia agnewi Tenison-Woods, 1879
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) coxi (Angas, 1867)

Description

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The length of the shell attains 33 mm. It has a Spiral sculpture of 10-20 spiral cords per whorl

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria

References

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  1. ^ a b Vexitomina coxi (Angas, 1867). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  • Angas, G.F. 1867. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 110–117, pl. 13
  • Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1878: 32-40
  • Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1906. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part IX. With complete index to the whole Catalogue. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 18(2): 39-92
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
  • May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
  • Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
  • Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188-324
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
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  • "Vexitomina coxi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295