Vexillum intermedium

Vexillum intermedium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Subgenus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. intermedium
Binomial name
Vexillum intermedium (Kiener, 1838)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra lupulina Lesson, R.P. Mitra intermedia Kiener, 1838 Mitra hybrida Kiener, L.C., 1838 Mitra brionae Sowerby III, 1889 Vexillum rugosum intermediatum [sic] (misspelling)

Vexillum (Vexillum) intermedium, common name : the intermediate mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1]

Description[edit]

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Distribution[edit]

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and in the Pacific Ocean along Queensland, Australia.

References[edit]

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
• Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1–100 page(s): 38
• Sharabati, D. (1984) Red Sea Shells. KPI Limited, London, 128 pp. page(s): pl. 25
• Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289.

External links[edit]

• Sowerby, G. B., III. (1889). Descriptions of fourteen new species of shells from China, Japan, and the Andaman Islands, chiefly collected by Deputy Surgeon-Gen. R. Hungerford. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 56: 565-570, pl. 28
• "Vexillum (Vexillum) intermedium". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 14 December 2010.

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