Vexillum amabile
Vexillum amabile, common name the friendly mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.The sovate shell is rather thick. The spire is obtusely depressed. The whorls are somewhat rounded, longitudinally ribbed, transversely impressly grooved. The colour is ashy grey, variously banded with white. The columella is four-plaited. The aperture is rather short, its interior brown.
A small, very decidedly marked species, most remarkable for the deeply incised, somewhat punctate, dark revolving lines on an ash-colored ground, its wave-like folds and its short rhomboidal form.
The color of the shell is ashy or pinkish gray, with a broad white superior band, and sometimes narrow white revolving lines below it.