| Vexillum subquadratum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. subquadratum
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| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum subquadratum (Sowerby II & Sowerby III, 1874)
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Vexillum subquadratum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell attains a length of 23 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific off Mauritius and the Philippines through to Polynesia and Hawaii.
References
[edit]- ^ Vexillum subquadratum (Sowerby II & Sowerby III, 1874). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- 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.
External links
[edit]- 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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