Vexillum collinsoni | |
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Shell of Vexillum collinsoni (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
Family: | Costellariidae |
Genus: | Vexillum |
Species: | V. collinsoni
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Binomial name | |
Vexillum collinsoni (A. Adams, 1864)
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Vexillum collinsoni is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 16 mm.
The shell is whitish, stained with brown at the apex, obscurely banded with bluish ash a little below the top of the whorls, and spotted irregularly with brown in the same part, generally between the ribs. The lower half of the body whorl is cinereous brown. [2]
This marine species occurs off Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii; in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique.