Vexillum tusum

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Vexillum tusum
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Vexillum tusum (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. tusum
Binomial name
Vexillum tusum
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Mitra alveolusReeve, 1845
  • Mitra olgaeCate, J. 1963
  • Mitra tusaReeve, 1845 (original combination)
  • Pusia olgae(L.A. Reeve, 1845)
  • Pusia tusum(Reeve, 1845)
  • Vexillum (Pusia) tusum(Reeve, 1845)
  • Vexillum alveolus(Reeve, 1845) ·

Vexillum tusum, common name the bruised mitre, 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 attains 8 mm.

(Original description) The shell is ovate. The sutures of the spire are deeply impressed. The shell is longitudinally finely ribbed and transversely impressly striated. The upper part of the whorls is white, ornamented with large squarish brown spots. The lower part is entirely brown. The columella is four-plaited. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mozambique, Guam and in French Polynesia,; also off the Coral Sea islands and Australia (Queensland)

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