Vexillum virgo

Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo
Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Subgenus: Costellaria
Species: V. virgo
Binomial name
Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo
Synonyms[1]
  • Voluta cruentatum Gmelin, J.F., 1791
  • Mitra harpifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811
  • Mitra harpaeformis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
  • Mitra armillata Reeve, 1845
  • Vexillum proxima Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1875
  • Vexillum sandwichensis Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1875

Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo, common name : the Virgin Mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 25 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific and in the Pacific Ocean along Samoa, Australia and Papua New Guinea

References

  1. 1 2 Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo (Linne, 1767).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 December 2010.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
  • Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 67
  • Gastropods.com: Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo; accessed: 7 December 2010]

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