title: Vaceuchelus ampullus
text: # Vaceuchelus ampullus
  
  Vaceuchelus ampullus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  (Original description)The shell is globose-conic, imperforate in the young, narrowly umbilicated or reduced to a fissure in the adult. It is whitish, spotted with red on the revolving ribs. The whorls of the spire are quadrate, separated by a linear suture. The body whorl is convex, except a little flattening at the suture.
  
  The sculpture of the penultimate whorl consists of three equally thick, obtuse, and plain cinguli (= colored bands or spiral ornamentation), separated from one another and from the sutures by nearly equal interspaces, with or without a small riblet in each interval. All over regularly clathrate, the interstitial pits are narrowly oblong. The body whorl contains about eight cinguli, clathrate in the intervals: the supra-peripheral intervals show a riblet. The four basal cinguli are granulose.
  
  The aperture is roundly oval. The outer and basal margins are smooth within. The columella is arcuate, slightly explanulate concave and edentulous.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species is endemic to Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia).
  
  