Biology:Vexillum stephanuchum

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Vexillum stephanuchum
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.217226 - Vexillum stephanuchum (Melvill, 1897) - Costellariidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Shell of Vexillum stephanuchum (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Species:
V. stephanuchum
Binomial name
Vexillum stephanuchum
(Melvill, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Costellaria) stephanucha Melvill, 1897 (basionym)
  • Vexillum stephanucha (Melvill, 1897) (incorrect gender ending)

Vexillum stephanuchum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 42 mm, its diameter 12 mm.

(Original description) The large shell has an attenuate fusiform shape. Its colour is cinereous-red. The shell contains 14 gradate whorls and a sharp apex. These are smooth (to the naked eye), except where the spiral acutely noduled coronations encircle the upper part of the last five or six whorls. These coronations gradually get fainter, and disappear altogether in the upper whorls, which are many-ribbed, with interstitial transverse liration. These lirae continue on the lower whorls, many-punctate, and the ribs on these last are fewer and very strongly marked. The oblong aperture is narrow. The outer lip is sharp. Inside it is striated. The columella is four-plaited.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Oman and in the Persian Gulf; also off Pakistan .

References

  • Turner H. (2001) Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald 1860 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea). Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 100 pp.

Wikidata ☰ Q7924175 entry