Vexillum amabile

Vexillum amabile
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Vexillum
Species:	V. amabile
Binomial name
	Vexillum amabile; (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
	Mitra amabilis Reeve, 1845; Mitra encausta Gould, 1850; Pusia amabilis (Reeve, 1845); Vexillum (Pusia) amabile (Reeve, 1845);

Vexillum amabile is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1] The higher group are the Gastropoda.

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.

Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults.

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1–100 page(s): 31

"Vexillum (Pusia) amabile". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
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