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Vexillum (Costellaria) sculptile (Reeve, 1845) 
AphiaID: 208338

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		  Mitra cophina Gould, 1850
 Mitra sculptilis Reeve, 1845
 Vexillum cophinum (Gould, 1850)
Sources  basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details]

additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details]

additional source: Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100
page(s): 59 [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56 [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Mascarene Basin [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Vexillum (Costellaria) sculptile
Vexillum (Costellaria) sculptile
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208338
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) sculptile (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208338 on 2013-06-20
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