| Vexillum amabile | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexillum amabile | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. amabile |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum amabile (Reeve, 1845) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Vexillum amabile, common name the friendly mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. [1]
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.
(Original description) The sovate shell is rather thick. The spire is obtusely depressed. The whorls are somewhat rounded, longitudinally ribbed, transversely impressly grooved. The colour is ashy grey, variously banded with white. The columella is four-plaited. The aperture is rather short, its interior brown. [2]
(Described as Mitra encausta) A small, very decidedly marked species, most remarkable for the deeply incised, somewhat punctate, dark revolving lines on an ash-colored ground, its wave-like folds and its short rhomboidal form. [3]
The color of the shell is ashy or pinkish gray, with a broad white superior band, and sometimes narrow white revolving lines below it. [4]
Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults.
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
Vexillum acupictum, common name : the pinpricked mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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Vexillum daedalum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum deshayesii is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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Vexillum (Costellaria) militare is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum (Costellaria) suluense is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum articulatum, common name the articulated mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum aureolatum, common name : the golden mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum bizonale is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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Vexillum cavea, common name the bird-cage mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum cithara, common name the harp mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum interruptum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum (Pusia) leucodesma is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Vexillum (Pusia) speciosum, common name : the specious mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
