Vexillum macandrewi is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexillum macandrewi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. macandrewi
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| Vexillum macandrewi (G.B. Sowerby II, 1874)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 19 mm and 33 mm.
(Original description) A pretty graceful, thin, fawn-coloured shell, with spiral striae and elegantly curved longitudinal thin ribs. [2]
The shell has a fawn color, lighter on the periphery. [3]
Distribution
editThis marin e species occurs off South Africa, Mozambique; in the Red Sea and the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ Vexillum macandrewi (G.B. Sowerby II, 1874). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published
- ^ Tryon (1882), Manual of Conchology IV
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