Vexillum gruneri

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

Vexillum gruneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. gruneri
Binomial name
Vexillum gruneri (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
Mitra gruneri Reeve, 1844 (original combination) Turricula modesta Pease, 1868 Vexillum (Vexillum) gruneri (Reeve, 1844)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 27 mm.

(Original description) The shell is shortly fusiform, somewhat harpshaped. The spire is short, turreted and acute. It is longitudinally sharply ribbed, with the ribs sharp pointedly tuberculated above. The upper part of the whorls is flatly angulated. The shell is olive-green, painted in the interstices between the ribs with three rather distant transverse reddish-brown lines. The columella is five-plaited.^[2]

The shell is white, more or less distinctly banded with ash, with a superior, and sometimes one or two inferior narrow chestnut revolving lines. The shell is smooth between the longitudinal ribs.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the central Indo-West Pacific; also off Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Australia (Queensland).