Vexillum radix | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
Family: | Costellariidae |
Genus: | Vexillum |
Species: | V. radix
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Binomial name | |
Vexillum radix (G.B. Sowerby II & G.B. Sowerby III, 1874)
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Vexillum radix is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
The length of the shell attains 31 mm.
The shell is similar to Vexillum obeliscus (Reeve, 1844), but the ribs are more distant and arcuate.[2]
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific: off Mozambique and the Philippines; also off Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)