Vexillum collinsoni

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Vexillum collinsoni
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Shell of Vexillum collinsoni (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Species:
V. collinsoni
Binomial name
Vexillum collinsoni
(A. Adams, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Costellaria collinsoniA. Adams, 1864 (original combination)
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) collinsoni(A. Adams, 1864)

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

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Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 16 mm.

The shell is whitish, stained with brown at the apex, obscurely banded with bluish ash a little below the top of the whorls, and spotted irregularly with brown in the same part, generally between the ribs. The lower half of the body whorl is cinereous brown. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii; in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique.

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