Vexillum (gastropod)

Vexillum is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.[1]

Vexillum
An apertural view of a shell of Vexillum taeniatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Vexillum
Röding, 1798
Type species
Vexillum plicatum
Röding, 1798
Synonyms[1]
  • Arenimitra Iredale, 1929
  • Callithea Swainson, 1840 (Invalid: junior homonym of Callithea Feisthamel, 1835; Pulchritima is a replacement name)
  • Costellaria Swainson, 1840
  • Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
  • Mitra (Tiara) Swainson, 1831
  • Mitra (Turricula)
  • Mitropifex Iredale, 1929
  • Pulchritima Iredale, 1929
  • Pusiolina Cossmann, 1921
  • Tiara Swainson, 1831
  • Tiara (Callithea) Swainson, 1840 (original rank)
  • Tiara (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
  • Turricula Fabricius, 1823 non Schumacher, 1817
  • Turricula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Turricula (Costellaria)
  • Turricula (Uromitra) Bellardi, 1887
  • Uromitra Bellardi, 1887
  • Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
  • Vexillum (Uromitra) Bellardi, 1888
  • Vexillum (Vexillum) Röding, 1798
  • Vulpecula Blainville, 1824
  • Zierliana Gray, 1847

This genus is not monophyletic.[2] It is considered a "dumping ground" for an array of unrelated forms.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Vexillum include:[1]

Subgenus Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Subgenus Vexillum (Nodicostellaria) Petuch, 1987
Subgenus Vexillum (Pusia) Swainson, 1840
Subgenus Vexillum (Pusiolina) Cossman, 1921
Subgenus Vexillum (Tosapusia) Azuma, 1965
Subgenus Vexillum (Pusia) Swainson, 1840
Subgenus Vexillum (Vexillum) Röding, 1798

References

  1. Vexillum Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 January 2011.
  2. Fedosov, Alexander E., et al. "Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179.3 (2017): 541-626.
  3. Cernohorsky WO. 1966. A study of mitrid radulae and a tentative generic arrangement of the family Mitridae. The Veliger 9: 101–126
  4. Salisbury R., Gori S. (2012). A new Costellarid species (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from Taiwan. Visaya 3 (5): 57-60.
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