''Vexitomina radulaeformis'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Horaiclavidae Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...

Description

Charles Hedley (1922) was of the opinion that this species is unknown to Australian conchologists ; apparently it resembles ''

Vexitomina metcalfei ''Vexitomina metcalfei'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. Description The length of the shell attains 20 mm. The holotype is a faded shell in the British Museum. This species varies in ...

'' (Angas, 1867). The type is probably in the Godefffoy Museum, Hamburg . He described it as ''Inquisitor radulaeformis'' Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
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Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs in the

Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...

, Tasmania.

References

* Weinkauff, H.C. 1876. Das Genus Pleurotoma. pp. 49–136 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 4.

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
radulaeformis Gastropods described in 1876 Gastropods of Australia {{Horaiclavidae-stub