Vexillum granosum

Vexillum granosum
Shell of Vexillum granosum (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. granosum
Binomial name
Vexillum granosum (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Mitra cancellataRöding, 1798 (objective synonym) Vexillum cancellataP.F. Röding, 1798 Vexillum sanguisugum granosumJ.F. Gmelin, 1791 Vexillum (Costellaria) granosum(Gmelin, 1791) Voluta granosaGmelin, 1791 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 37 mm.

The shell is yellowish white to ash color. The ribs are tipped with scarlet, sometimes with one or more chocolate bands. The base and apex have a chocolate color. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Vexillum granosum (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=591502 on 2018-12-31
2. Tryon (1882), Manual of Conchology IV This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• 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
• Cernohorsky, W. O. (1974). "Type Specimens of Mollusca in the University Zoological Museum, Copenhagen". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum . 11: 143–192. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42906212. Wikidata   Q58676985.
• Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51

External links

• 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
• Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp
• Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)