| Vexillum (Costellaria) acupictum | |
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| Vexillum (Costellaria) acupictum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Vexillum |
| Subgenus: | Costellaria |
| Species: | V. acupictum |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum (Costellaria) acupictum (Reeve, 1845) |
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Vexillum (Costellaria) acupictum, common name : the Pinpricked Mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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The shell size varies between 13 mm and 46 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius, and in the Western Pacific Ocean and Japan.