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Taxonomy
Family:
COSTELLARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Costellariidae (Family)
> Vexillum (Genus)
> angustissimum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Costellaria Swainson, 1840
=Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
=Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra angustissima E.A. Smith, 1903
=Vexillum (Costellaria) angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
Images: Vexillum angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
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Taxonomy
Family:
COSTELLARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Costellariidae (Family)
> Vexillum (Genus)
> angustissimum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Costellaria Swainson, 1840
=Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
=Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra angustissima E.A. Smith, 1903
=Vexillum (Costellaria) angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
Details: Vexillum angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
Size/Grows to:
Height 20mm
Distribution:
From the Red Sea to the Tonga Islands. Kermadec Islands
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.226)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978 New records of neogastropod Mollusca from the Kermadec Islands, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 15 (p.64)

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NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil