- Source: Vexillum granosum
Vexillum granosum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Description
The length of the shell attains 37 mm.
The shell is yellowish white to ash color. The ribs are tipped with scarlet, sometimes with one or more chocolate bands. The base and apex have a chocolate color.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)
References
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190
Cernohorsky, W. O. (1974). "Type Specimens of Mollusca in the University Zoological Museum, Copenhagen". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 11: 143–192. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906212. Wikidata Q58676985.
Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51
External links
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
Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp
Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)