Biology:Vexillum virgo

Short description: Species of gastropod

Vexillum virgo
Vexillum virgo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. virgo
Binomial name
Vexillum virgo (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
Mitra (Turricula) cruentata (Gmelin, 1791) superseded combination Mitra armillata Reeve, 1845 Mitra cruentata (Gmelin, 1791) Mitra cruentata var. proxima G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875 Mitra cruentata var. sandvichensis G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875· Mitra harpifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Mitra harpaeformis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo (Linnaeus, 1767) Vexillum cruentatum (Gmelin, 1791) Vexillum harpiferum J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1811 Vexillum proxima Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1875 Vexillum sandwichensis Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1875 Voluta cruentata Gmelin, J.F., 1791 Voluta virgo Linnaeus, 1767 (original combination)

Vexillum virgo, common name : the virgin mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.

Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 25 mm (half an inch to one inch).

The shortly conical shell is stout round the upper part. The spire is truncated, depressly hidden. It is transversely closely engraved throughout with very fine slightly punctured grooves. The shell is whitish or yellowish; the base is tipped with blackish violet. The columella is four-plaited, with a callosity at the upper part.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific and in the Pacific Ocean off Samoa; also off the Philippines and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland) and Papua New Guinea.

References

• Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222
• Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp.
• Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1875. Descriptions of new marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal n.s. 44(2): 83–104, pls 7, 8
• Smith, E.A. 1876. A list of marine shells, chiefly from the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of several new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 12: 535–562, pl. 30
• Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv
• Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247–364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49.
• 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
• Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Salisbury, R.A. 1999. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 1. Of Sea and Shore 22(3): 124-136
• Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1–100-page(s): 67
• Salisbury, R. A. & Gori, S. (2019). Notes on a collection of Costellariidae from Palau Islands with descriptions of two new species (Gastropoda: Costellariidae). Acta Conchyliorum. 18: 7-20.
• Marrow M.P. (2019). Seven new species of Vexillum (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from Western Australia. Acta Conchyliorum. 19: 77-94.

External links

• Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. Holmiae
• Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae
• http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37192018
• "Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_4840.shtml. 
• Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)

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