Vexillum mirabile
Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Species:
V. mirabile
Binomial name
Vexillum mirabile
(A. Adams, 1853)
Synonyms[1]
  • Costellaria angulosa (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Costellaria commutata (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Costellaria macfadyeni (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Costellaria rugosa (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Mitra (Costellaria) commutata Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1923 ·
  • Mitra angulosa Reeve, 1845 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra angulosa Küster, 1839)
  • Mitra mirabilis A. Adams, 1853 (original combination)
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) commutata Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) rugosa Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) macfadyeni Cox, L.R., 1930

Vexillum mirabile, common name : miraculous 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 33 mm and 66 mm

The shell is yellowish white, stained or strigated with brown. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and Madagascar, in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines and Thailand and the Tuamotus; also off Australia (Queensland, Western Australia).

References

  1. 1 2 Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 December 2010.
  2. Tryon (1882), Manual of Conchology IV Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-25
  • 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. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
  • Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp.
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Turner, H. 1989. Ungewöhnliche und neue Mitroidea aus dem Indopazifik. Teil 1. Club Conchylia Informationen 21(5/6): 30-62
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 3. Of Sea and Shore 23(1): 4-14
  • Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1–100 page(s): 45
  • Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51
  • Arnaud, J.P., Berthault, C., Jeanpierre, R., Martin, J.C. & Martin, P. 2002. Costellariidae et Mitridae de Nouvelle Calédonie. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 100: 52 pp.
  • Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
  • Marrow M.P. (2019). Seven new species of Vexillum (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from Western Australia. Acta Conchyliorum. 19: 77-94.
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