| Vexillum vulpecula | |
|---|---|
| |
| Vexillum vulpecula | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. vulpecula
|
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum vulpecula (Linnaeus, 1758)
| |
| Synonyms[1] * [2] | |
| |
Vexillum vulpecula (common name: the Little Fox Mitre) is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
The shell size varies between 27 mm and 72 mm.
The shell is stoutly fusiform with a high spire. The spire is acuminated. The seven whorls are transversely impressly striated with narrow spiral grooves, sometimes smooth towards the upper part and longitudinally ribbed. The ribs are rude, obtuse, of the body whorl sometimes indistinct. The ribs become strong at the angular shoulder. The suture is channeled. The outer lip is slightly concave and lirate within. The shell is whitish or yellowish orange, more or less banded with brown, sometimes encircled with pale reddish fillets, base and apex blackish. The white columella is four-plaited, stained at the upper part with black.[3]
This species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific near Madagascar and Mozambique and in the Pacific Ocean the Philippines, Fiji and Okinawa; also off New Caledonia and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
