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Taxonomy
Family:
COSTELLARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Costellariidae (Family)
> Vexillum (Genus)
> sculptile (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Costellaria Swainson, 1840
=Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
=Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra (Pusia) iteina Melvill, 1918
=Mitra cophina A.A. Gould, 1850
=Mitra sculptilis Reeve, 1845
=Vexillum (Costellaria) sculptile (Reeve, 1845)
=Vexillum cophinum (A.A. Gould, 1850)
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Taxonomy
Family:
COSTELLARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Costellariidae (Family)
> Vexillum (Genus)
> sculptile (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Costellaria Swainson, 1840
=Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
=Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra (Pusia) iteina Melvill, 1918
=Mitra cophina A.A. Gould, 1850
=Mitra sculptilis Reeve, 1845
=Vexillum (Costellaria) sculptile (Reeve, 1845)
=Vexillum cophinum (A.A. Gould, 1850)
Details: Vexillum sculptile (Reeve, 1845)
Size/Grows to:
Height 46mm
Distribution:
From Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to New Britain and Queensland, Australia. Kermadec Islands, from 100-366m
Type Data:
  • Ticao Island, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978 New records of neogastropod Mollusca from the Kermadec Islands, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 15 (p.62)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil