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Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus (Reeve, 1844) 
AphiaID: 208299

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Costellariidae (Family) > Vexillum (Genus) > Vexillum (Costellaria) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840 represented as Vexillum Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa		  Costellaria obeliscus (Reeve, 1844)
 Mitra obeliscus Reeve, 1844
Sources  additional source: Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100
page(s): 48 [details]

from synonym: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

identification resource: Salisbury R. & Guillot de Suduiraut E. (2006) Five new Costellariidae from the Philippine Islands taken by tangle net fisherman (Gastropoda: Muricoidea: Costellariidae). Visaya 1(6): 90-103. [October 2006] [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus
Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208299
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-03-27 07:13:42Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2009-09-07 10:33:00Z  changed  Robin, Alain
  
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  Citation: Robin, A. (2013). Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus (Reeve, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208299 on 2013-05-22
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