title: Vexillum collinsoni
text: # Vexillum collinsoni
  
  Vexillum collinsoni is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  
  ## Description
  
  The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 16 mm.
  
  The shell is whitish, stained with brown at the apex, obscurely banded with bluish ash a little below the top of the whorls, and spotted irregularly with brown in the same part, generally between the ribs. The lower half of the body whorl is cinereous brown.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs off Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii; in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique.
  
  