| Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus | |
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| Vexillum obeliscus | |
| 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. obeliscus |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus (Reeve, 1844) |
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Vexillum (Costellaria) obeliscus 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 20 mm and 45 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Madagascar; in the Pacific Ocean along New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji and the Solomons Islands.