Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Turbinelloidea > Family Costellariidae

Vexillum Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Turricula*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Tiara*	Swainson, 1831	synonym
*Tiara (Costellaria)*	Swainson, 1840	synonym
*Uromitra*	Bellardi, 1887	synonym
*Vexillum (Costellaria)*	Swainson, 1840	synonym
*Vexillum (Vexillum)*	Röding, 1798	synonym

Children

Vexillum depexum (Deshayes, 1833)
Vexillum pyramidellum (Brocchi, 1814)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: miters; mitres sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Mitras; Mitraschnecken

Literature

original description	Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.
basis of record	Turner H. (2001) Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald 1860 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea). Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 100 pp.
additional source	Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. (2017). Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(3): 541-626.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vexillum Röding, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137846