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Vexillum michaui
Vexillum michaui (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. michaui
Binomial name
Vexillum michaui Crosse & Fischer, 1864)
Synonyms
Mitra alauda Sowerby II& Sowerby III, 1874 Mitra deshayesi var. nigricans Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1923 (non Pease, 1865) Mitra michaui Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864 (basionym) Vexillum alauda (Sowerby II, 1874) Vexillum deshayesii alauda (Sowerby II, 1874)

Vexillum michaui is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.

There are two subspecies:

• Vexillum michaui michaui Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864
• Vexillum michaui wilsi Buijse & Dekker, 1990

Description

The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 27 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and Mozambique; off the Philippines, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia.

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vexillum michaui (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=752112 on 2023-04-16

• Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 44
• Buijse J.A., Dekker H. & Verbinnen G. (2009) The identities of Mitra fidicula Gould, 1850, Mitra michaui Crosse & Fischer, 1864 and Mitra intertaeniata G.B. Sowerby II, 1874, with the description of a new Vexillum species (Gastropoda: Costellariidae). Visaya 2(4): 16–51. page(s): 18

External links

• Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published.
• Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1864). Diagnoses Molluscorum Australiae meridionalis. Journal de Conchyliologie. 12 (4): 346-350
• https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55716846?rk=85837;2
• Liénard, Élizé. Catalogue de la faune malacologique de l'île Maurice et de ses dépendances comprenant les îles Seychelles, le groupe de Chagos composé de Diego-Garcia, Six-îles, Pèros-Banhos, Salomon, etc., l'île Rodrigues, l'île de Cargados ou Saint-Brandon. J. Tremblay, 1877.
• Cernohorsky, Walter Oliver. The Mitridae of Fiji; The veliger vol. 8 (1965)
• WMSDB: image

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