Vexillum caffrum
Species of gastropod
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Vexillum caffrum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
| Vexillum caffrum | |
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| Shell of Vexillum caffrum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Species: | V. caffrum |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum caffrum (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 51 mm.
The fusiform shell has a high spire and an adpressed suture. It shows many axial riblets, becoming obsolete on the middle of the body whorl. The outer lip is lirate, a little concave and inverted. The interior of the lip edge is dark brown. The columella has four plaits. The short siphonal canal is open and a little recurved.
The shell is dark chocolate brown, with two or three yellow spiral zones, the upper one visible on the spire.[2]
Distribution
Tropîcal Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to Polynesia; off Australia (Queensland).