| Vexillum coronatum | |
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| Vexillum coronatum (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. coronatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum coronatum (Helbling, 1779) | |
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Vexillum coronatum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 26 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Fiji Islands, Guam, the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.
References
- ↑ Vexillum coronatum (Helbling, 1779). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
External links
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- Helbling G. S. (1779). Beyträge zur Kenntniß neuer und seltener Konchylien. Aus einigen Wienerischen Sammlungen. Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft in Böhmen, zur Aufnahme der Mathematik, der vaterländischen Geschichte, und der Naturgeschichte, 4: 102-131, pl. 1-4.
- Liénard, Élizé. Catalogue de la faune malacologique de l'île Maurice et de ses dépendances comprenant les îles Seychelles, le groupe de Chagos composé de Diego-Garcia, Six-îles, Pèros-Banhos, Salomon, etc., l'île Rodrigues, l'île de Cargados ou Saint-Brandon. J. Tremblay, 1877.
- Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)
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