COSTELLARIIDAE

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Guam is well represented by this popular family. There are still a few species which need description, are misidentified, or poorly understood. The reader should consider this a working list which will certainly undergo revision. More discussion will be offered with time.

acupictum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1844)
acuminatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Gmelin, 1791)
albatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) Cernohorsky, 1988
amabile, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1845)
amandum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
anthracina, Zierliana (Reeve, 1844)
aureolineatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (H. Turner, 1988)
bilineatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1845)
bipartitum, Vexillum (Pusia) (E. A. Smith, 1884)
cadaverosum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1844)
cancellarioides, Vexillum (Pusia) (Anton, 1839)
catenatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Broderip, 136)
cf. cavea, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1844)
collinsoni, Vexillum (Costellaria) (A. Adams, 1864)
consanguineum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1845)
corallinum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1845)
corbiculum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Sowerby, 1870)
coronatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Helbling, 1779)
costatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Gmelin, 1791)
crocatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Lamarck, 1811)
cumingii, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1844)
discolorum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
diutenerum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Hervier, 1897)
duplex, Vexillum (Costellaria) Cernohorsky, 1981
echinatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (A. Adams, 1853)
emilae, Vexillum (Pusia) (Garrett, 1880)
exasperatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Gnelin, 1791)
exquisita, Thala Garrett, 1873
exquisitum, Vexillum (Pusia)(Garrett, 1873)
festum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1845)
filistriatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Sowerby, 1874)
formosense, Vexillum (Sowerby, 1889)
fortiplicatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Pease, 1868)
gloriae, Thala Rosenberg & Salisbury, 2003
goubini, Vexillum (Pusia) (Hervier, 1897)
humile, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Hervier, 1897)
infaustum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
interruptum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Anton, 1839)
interstriatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Sowerby, 1870)
intertaeniatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Sowerby, 1874)

jaculanda, Thala (Gould, 1860)
lautum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1845)
leucozonias, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Deshayes, 1834)
ligatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (A. Adams, 1845)
lucidum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
mica, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
micra, Vexillum (Costellaria) Pilsbry, 1921
michaui, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Crosse & Fischer, 1864)
microzonias, Vexillum (Pusia) (Lamarck, 1811)
millecostatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Broderip, 1836)
mirabile, Vexillum (A.Adams, 1853)
modestum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
moelleri, Vexillum (Pusia) (Küster, 1840)
obeliscus, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1844)
pacificum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
pagodula, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Hervier, 1897)
paligerum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Sowerby, 1874)
patriarchalis, Vexillum (Pusia) (Gmelin, 1791)
percnodictyum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Melvill, 1888)
plurinotatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Hervier, 1897)
potieri, Vexillum (Costellaria) Rivas & Jay, 1989
purpuratum, Vexillum (Costellaria) Reeve, 1845
recurvirostris, Vexillum (Pusia) (Sowerby, 1908)
roseotinctum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Hervier, 1898)
roseum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Broderip, 1826)
rubrum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Broderip, 1836)
sanguisuga, Vexillum (Costellaria) Linné, 1758
semicostatum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Anton, 1839)
semifasciatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Lamarck, 1811)
smithi, Vexillum (Pusia) (Sowerby, 1889)
speciosum, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1844)
suluense, Vexillum (Costellaria) Adams & Reeve, 1850
turben, Vexillum (Pusia) (Reeve, 1844)
turriger, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
tusum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)
unifasciale, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Lamarck, 1811)
unifasciatum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Wood, 1828)
xenium, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Pilsbry, 1921)
zelotypum, Vexillum (Costellaria) (Reeve, 1845)


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