| Vexillum echinatum | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexillum echinatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. echinatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum echinatum (A. Adams, 1853) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vexillum echinatum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 28 mm.
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Red Sea; Tropical Indo-Pacific to Polynesia; also off the Philippines.
Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a taxonomic family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This family of snails is also sometimes referred to as Vexillum miters. The main family of miter shells however is Mitridae, a closely related group.
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