Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Muricoidea Genus Vexillum Scientific name Vexillum unifascialis Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Family Costellariidae Subgenus Pusia Higher classification Vexillum | |
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Vexillum (Pusia) unifascialis, common name : the Golden Mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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The epithet is sometimes spelled as "unifasciale"
There is one subspecies : Vexillum unifascialis affinis (Reeve, 1844) and one forma : Vexillum (Pusia) unifasciale venustula (f) (Reeve, L.A., 1844)
Description
The shell size varies between 8 mm and 29 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin in the Indo-West Pacific and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Polynesia.
References
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