Vexillum deshayesii

Vexillum deshayesii is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1]

Vexillum deshayesii
Shell of syntype at MNHN, Paris
Scientific classification
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[1]
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)

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.

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. ^[2]