Vexitomina suavis

Vexitomina suavis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.

Vexitomina suavis
Drawing of a shell of Vexitomina suavis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Vexitomina
Species:	V. suavis
Binomial name
Vexitomina suavis (Smith E. A., 1888)
Synonyms
Drillia prosuavis C. Hedley, 1903 Inquisitor suavis (Smith, 1888) Paradrillia (Paradrillia) suavis (E.A. Smith, 1888) Pleurotoma (Drillia) suavis Smith E. A., 1888 Vexitomina suavis (Smith, 1888)

Description

The length of the shell attains 17 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria); also off the Loyalty Islands and Vietnam.

References

• Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37
• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188-324
• Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

External links

• Smith, E.A. (1888) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 2, 300–317
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
• "Vexitomina suavis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.