Anachis vexillum
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
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| image = Anachis vexillum 001.jpg
| image_caption = Shell of Anachis vexillum (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
| taxon = Anachis vexillum
| authority = (Reeve, 1858)
| synonyms =
- Columbella costellata G. B. Sowerby I, 1832 (not Broderip & Sowerby I, 1829)
- Columbella multivoluta Reeve, 1859
- Columbella vexillum Reeve, 1858 (original combination)
}}
Anachis vexillum, common name the flag columbella, is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.{{WRMS species|511455|Anachis vexillum (Reeve, 1858)|2 July 2025}}
Description
(Original description) The shell is acuminately oblong and somewhat turreted, appearing yellowish and conspicuously striped longitudinally with dark-brown. It features eight whorls, which are somewhat swollen at the upper part and are longitudinally ribbed. The body whorl is concavely contracted. The aperture is small, and its interior is bluish. {{cite book |last1=Reeve |first1=L.A. |title=Monograph of the Genus Columbella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 11 |date=1858–1859 |publisher=L. Reeve & Co. |location=London |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8183166 |access-date=2 July 2025}} {{PD-notice}}
Distribution
This species is found in the Gulf of California , Mexico.
References
{{Reflist}}
- Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls.
External links
- {{cite journal |last1=Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. |title=Descriptions of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean |journal=Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. |date=1832–1833 |volume=part II |page=118 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26730700}}
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