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Vexillum deshayesii
Shell of syntype at MNHN, Paris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. deshayesii
Binomial name
Vexillum deshayesii (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
Mitra rigida Swainson, W.A., 1840 Mitra deshayesi Reeve, 1844 Mitra elegantula Dunker, R.W., 1871 Mitra articulata "Philippi, R.A." Jickeli, 1874 Mitra festiva Garrett, A., 1880 Mitra formosa Garrett, A., 1880 Vexillum (Costellaria) deshayesi (Reeve, 1844) (misspelling)

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

The subspecies : Vexillum deshayesi alauda (Sowerby II, 1874) has become a synonym of Vexillum (Costellaria) michaui (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864).

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 30 mm

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, Madagascar, Mauritius and Mozambique through Indonesia to Tonga and Samoa in southern Polynesia.

Fossils were found in late Miocene strata in Eniwetok. The species is not known to be living in the Marshall Islands today.

References

1. ^ Vexillum (Costellaria) deshayesi (Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 December 2010.
2. Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 29
• 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): 23

External links

• "Vexillum (Costellaria) deshayesii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
• 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.
• 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)

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