Vexillum pacificum

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

Vexillum pacificum
Drawing of a shell of Vexillum pacificum (holotype)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. pacificum
Binomial name
Vexillum pacificum (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
Mitra pacifica Reeve, 1845 (original combination) Mitra (Costellaria) pacifica comtempta Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923 Mitra (Costellaria) pacifica rosea Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923 Mitra wisemani Dohrn, 1860 Vexillum (Costellaria) pacificum (Reeve, 1845)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 11 mm and 19 mm.

(Original description) The rather thick shell is elongately ovate. The spire is turreted. The whorls are angulated at the upper part, longitudinally ridged, ridges numerous, narrow, transversely impressly grooved. The shell is white, encircled with a brown band between the ridges only. The columella is four-plaited, uppermost plait much the largest. The aperture is rather short.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-West and Central Pacific; off Mozambique, Réunion, Guam, the Loyalty Islands, Indonesia, the Philippines and off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).