Vexillum acuminatum

Vexillum acuminatum
Shells of Vexillum acuminatum (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. acuminatum
Binomial name
Vexillum acuminatum (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra crebrilirata Reeve, 1844 Mitra elata Röding, P.F. 1798 Mitra layardii Adams, A. 1855 Mitra polita Reeve, 1844 junior subjective synonym Mitra rosea Kiener, L.C. 1838-1839 Vexillum (Costellaria) acuminatum (Gmelin, 1791) accepted, alternate representation Vexillum crebrilirata [sic] (incorrect gender ending) Vexillum crebriliratum (Reeve, 1844) Voluta acuminata Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Vexillum acuminatum, common name the acuminate mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1]

The size of the shell varies between 12 mm and 42 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off New Caledonia and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

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• Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51 [

• Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae
• Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
• Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)

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