Vexillum appelii
Drawing of a shell of Vexillum appelii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. appelii
Binomial name
Vexillum appelii (Jickeli, 1874)
Synonyms[1]
Costellaria macandreae A.H. Cooke, 1885 Turricula (Costellaria) appelii Jickeli, 1874 (basionym) Turricula (Costellaria) pharaonis H. Adams, 1872 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Mitra pharaonis Issel, 1869; Turricula appelii and T. macandreae are replacement names) Turricula macandreae A. H. Cooke, 1885 · Vexillum (Costellaria) appelii (Jickeli, 1874)

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

The length of the shell attains 26.5 mm; its diameter 10 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

• Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 17
• Gori, S.; Rosado, J.; Salisbury, R. A. (2019). Costellariidae (Gastropoda) from Dhofar, Oman with descriptions of eight new species and notes on Vexillum appelii (Jickeli, 1874). Acta Conchyliorum. 18: 25-48.

• Jickeli, C. F. (1874). Studien über die Conchylien des Rothen Meeres. I. Die Gattung Mitra Lam. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 1: 17-55.
• Adams, H. (1872). Further descriptions of new species of shells collected by Robert M'Andrew, Esq., in the Red Sea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1872: 9-12, pl. 3.
• Cooke, A. H. (1885). Report on the testaceous Mollusca obtained during a dredging excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months February and March 1869 by Robert MacAndrew. Republished, with additions and corrections. Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 15: 322-339

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