Species Vexillum rubrum (Broderip, 1836)

• Vexillum (Pusia) rubrum Broderip, W.J. 1836. Characters of new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1835: 192-197 [196].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Lord Hoods Island (=Tuamotus: Marutea Island).

  Type locality references:

  Turner, H. 2001. Katalog der familie Costellariidae Macdonald 1860 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea). Hackenheim : ConchBooks 100 pp.
• Mitra rhodinosphaera Melvill, J.C. 1888. Description of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology 5: 281-288, pl. 2, figs11-25 [286, pl. 2, fig. 23].
• Mitra (Pusia) rhodochroa Hervier, J. 1897. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Mollusques provenant de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 45: 47-69, pls 2-3 [66].
• Turricula pilsbryi Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [468].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.6049, TUVALU, Ellice Group, on W slope of Funafuti Atoll [8°29'00"S, 179°04'00"E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [57] (Gives full synonymy)

Generic Combinations

• Pusia rubrum (Broderip, 1836). —
  Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [573, pl. 285, fig. 99]
• Vexillum (Pusia) rubrum (Broderip, 1836). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [57]
• Vexillum rubrum (Broderip, 1836).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific: Magasgar to Hawaii and the Society islands. Australian distribution from AMS collection.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Systematics

An alternative taxonomic view, treating Turricula pilsbryi as a full species, is given by Salisbury (1982), as listed in general References below.

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [57]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [115, pl. 40, fig. 1]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [331]

Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [573, pl. 285, fig. 99]

Robin, A. & Martin, J-C. 2004. Mitridae Costellariidae. Paris : Xenophora 34 pp., 32 plates. [28, pl. C-28]

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