Vexillum deshayesii
# Vexillum deshayesii

Vexillum deshayesii is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.

The subspecies : Vexillum deshayesi alauda (Sowerby II, 1874) has become a synonym of Vexillum (Costellaria) michaui (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864).

## Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 30 mm

## Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, Madagascar, Mauritius and Mozambique through Indonesia to Tonga and Samoa in southern Polynesia.

Fossils were found in late Miocene strata in Eniwetok. The species is not known to be living in the Marshall Islands today.

