Vexitomina metcalfei
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| Vexitomina metcalfei | |
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| Shells of Vexitomina metcalfei (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Vexitomina |
| Species: | V. metcalfei |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexitomina metcalfei (Angas G.F., 1867) | |
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Vexitomina metcalfei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 20 mm.
The holotype is a faded shell in the British Museum. This species varies in size, colour, and sculpture. It reaches a length of 20 mm., with nineteen tubercules on the penultimate whorl, and is usually dark chestnut picked out with buff on the shoulder nodules. The operculum is unguiculate with a terminal nucleus.[2]