Vexillum mirabile

Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile
	Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Subgenus:	Costellaria
Species:	V. mirabile
Binomial name
	Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile; (A. Adams, 1853)
Synonyms
	Mitra angulosa Reeve, 1845; Vexillum (Costellaria) tankervillei Melvill, J.C., 1888; Vexillum (Costellaria) commutata Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923; Vexillum (Costellaria) rugosa Dautzenberg, Ph. & J.L. Bouge, 1923; Vexillum (Costellaria) macfadyeni Cox, L.R., 1930;

Vexillum (Costellaria) mirabile, common name : miraculous mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 33 mm and 66 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Madagascar, in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines and Thailand and the Tuamotus.

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): 45