Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Muricoidea Genus Vexillum Scientific name Vexillum deshayesi Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Family Costellariidae Subgenus Costellaria Higher classification Vexillum | |
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Vexillum (Costellaria) deshayesi is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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The subspecies : Vexillum deshayesi alauda (Sowerby II, 1874) has become a synonym of Vexillum (Costellaria) michaui (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864)
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 30 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, Madagascar, Mauritius and Mozambique.
References
Vexillum deshayesi Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA