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Vexillum pulchellum Beautiful Mitre, Beautiful Miter, Pretty Mitre

Vexillum pulchellumis commonly referred to as Beautiful Mitre, Beautiful Miter, Pretty Mitre. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Vexillum pulchellum, Bonaire


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lexID:
16263 
AphiaID:
420085 
Scientific:
Vexillum pulchellum 
German:
Hübsche Mitra 
English:
Beautiful Mitre, Beautiful Miter, Pretty Mitre 
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Costellariidae (Family) > Vexillum (Genus) > pulchellum (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Reeve, ), 1844 
Occurrence:
Barbados, Bonaire, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, the Caribbean, USA 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
21 - 94 Meter 
Habitats:
Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
2,1 cm 
Weight:
2 g 
Temperature:
23,2 °F - 27,6 °F (23,2°C - 27,6°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Clams, No reliable information available, Snails, Worms 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Vexillum accinctum
  • Vexillum acromiale
  • Vexillum acuminatum
  • Vexillum acupictum
  • Vexillum adamsi
  • Vexillum adamsianum
  • Vexillum aemula
  • Vexillum aequatoriense
  • Vexillum aethiopicum
  • Vexillum albocinctum
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-02-19 13:22:18 

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Vexillum pulchellum (Reeve, 1844)

Vexillum pulchellum, common name the beuatiful mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, also known as the ribbed miters.

Synonymised names
Mitra pulchella Reeve, 1844 · unaccepted (original combination)
Pusia venusta Sarasúa, 1978 · unaccepted
Vexillum (Pusia) pulchellum (Reeve, 1844) · unaccepted
Vexillum venustum (Sarasúa, 1978) · unaccepted

External links

  1. EOL (en). Abgerufen am 19.02.2024.
  2. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 19.02.2024.

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Vexillum pulchellum, Bonaire

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