Vexitomina suavis
| Vexitomina suavis | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Vexitomina suavis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Vexitomina |
| Species: | V. suavis |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexitomina suavis (E.A. Smith, 1888) | |
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Vexitomina suavis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1] The species was first described by Edgar A. Smith in 1888[2]. It has subsequently been included in taxonomic revisions of Australian turrid gastropods, where its classification within the family Horaiclavidae has been retained.[3]
Description
The length of the shell attains 17 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria); also off the Loyalty Islands and Vietnam.
References
- 1 2 Vexitomina suavis (E.A. Smith, 1888). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- ↑ Smith, Edgar A. (October 1888). "XXXVIII.—Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidæ in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (10): 300–317. doi:10.1080/00222938809460930. ISSN 0374-5481.
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (26 July 2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017. ISSN 0260-1230.
- Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37
- Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
- Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188-324
- Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
External links
- Smith, E.A. (1888) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 2, 300–317
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- "Vexitomina suavis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.