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Vexillum blandulum

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ10832515 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vexillum blandulum is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.

Description

The length of the shell attains 22.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

Turner H. (1997) Three new species of mitriform gastropods with an illustrated check-list of the species living in the Red Sea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Muricoidea: Mitridae & Costellariidae). Argonauta 10(1-6): 3-31.

External links

Blatterer H. (2019). Mollusca of the Dahab region (Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea). Denisia.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vexillum blandulum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.