Vexitomina suavis

Vexitomina suavis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Vexitomina suavis
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
(Smith E. A., 1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia prosuavis C. Hedley, 1903
  • Inquisitor suavis (Smith, 1888)
  • Paradrillia (Paradrillia) suavis (E.A. Smith, 1888)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) suavis Smith E. A., 1888
  • Vexitomina suavis (Smith, 1888)

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

  • 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.


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